The dreadnought style was designed by Martin Guitars to produce a deeper sound than " classic "- style guitars, with very present bass fundamentals.

It is an unusual-looking instrument, distinguished by a fairly large body with squarish bouts, and either a " D "- shaped or longitudinal oval soundhole.

The concept of " cross "- examination is entirely due to adversarial structure of the common law.

Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik — but earlier, in the pages of Li ' l Abner.

* Hysterium: ( Latin for " Hysterical ", or " Anxious ", the suffix "- um " makes the name neuter, and the character's gender is often mistaken throughout the piece ) The chief slave in the house of Senex.

Brewers of modern dopplebocks often add "- ator " to their beer's name as a signpost of the style ; there are 200 "- ator " doppelbock names registered with the German patent office.

In the 1960s V-8 engines began to appear and during the 1969 / 1970 production years, the standard round " porthole "- style windows were replaced with larger rectangular windows which allowed more interior light and made them feel less claustrophobic.

When appearing as the suffix "- burg ( h )" in place-names, it is pronounced.

* The knight moves to any of the closest squares that are not on the same rank, file, or diagonal, thus the move forms an " L "- shape: two squares vertically and one square horizontally, or two squares horizontally and one square vertically.

Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy " 4X "- type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

For example, the word chief ( meaning the leader of any group ) comes from the Middle French chef (" head "), and its modern pronunciation preserves the Middle French consonant sound ; the word chef ( the leader of the cooks ) was borrowed from the same source centuries later, by which time the consonant had changed to a " sh "- sound in French.

It is also sometimes referred to as Middle Asia, and, colloquially, " the ' stans " ( as the five countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "- stan ", meaning " land of ") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent.

One of the major sentient species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe are the " Earth "- based ( ranging from Detritus to Diamond ) Trolls.

For example, "- 4 ", " 2. 5 ", " 10 ", " 89 ", " 30, 000 ".

Although this is desirable, it can lead to buffer overflows and other " off-by-one "- style mistakes.

The suffix "- by " for ' town ' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the East Midlands that is, Selby, Whitby, Derby and Grimsby.

Most drummers have a single main ride, near their right hand, most often 20 " but 16 "- 24 " are not uncommon.

A basic, conventional three-piece kit consists of bass drum, 14 " diameter snare drum, 12 "- 14 " hi-hats, and a single 12 " diameter hanging tom 8 "- 9 " in depth and a suspended cymbal in the range 14 "- 18 ", both mounted on the bass drum.

The standard cymbal sizes are 16 " crash and 18 "- 20 " ride, with the 20 " ride most common.

Some of them resembled a modern lowercase Latin " e ", some a " 6 " with a connecting stroke to the next letter starting from the middle, and some a combination of two small " c "- like curves.

In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.

Before his ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, his personal name ( his imina ) was, the first member of the Imperial house to be personally named "- hito " 仁.

* Thomas and H. Pratt McKean townhouses, 1923-25 Walnut St., 1869, demolished 1897 and 1920s.

File: 22nd & Walnut, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. jpg | Thomas and H. Pratt McKean Townhouses, 1923-25 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1869, demolished 1897 and 1920s ).

During 1923-25, the township of " Thiyagaraya Nagar " named after Sir P. Theagaraya Chetty was carved out of the southern part of the erstwhile Mambalam zamindari.

He was a technical director of the Commonwealth of Catalonia railways, he directed ( 1923-25 ) and projected the construction of the Transversal Metropolitan Railway of Barcelona and other Catalan railway lines.

From 1923-25, Eastman served as an appointed US Indian inspector under President Calvin Coolidge.

Between 1923-25, Dirksen served as German Consul in the Free City of Danzig.

The soaring nave by Giles Gilbert Scott ( c. 1923-25 ) remains unfinished, with its western wall in crude Lias stone standing bare and undecorated.

* CORDARA, De suppressione Societatis commentarii, Padua, 1923-25.