They're long enough to be immersive, but they're not doorstops, either.
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Floating ice shelves act like doorstops to the land-based glaciers behind them.
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He's tried doorstops, windshield wipers, wine and whiskey bottles in place of brushes.
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The big trailers were rumbling in, towing the decaled racecars — the ones that resemble giant wedges, speeding doorstops.
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With explosions of power, the cars tore into the first turn, a swarm of flying doorstops, and the earth trembled.
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They were once used as doorstops, Mr. Walker said, but after he inherited them they sat on a bookshelf, gathering dust.
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I used to use them as doorstops.... I had one girl on the cover of Seventeen magazine, Harper's Bazaar—all working for me.
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Throw or use whatever you have at hand as a weapon against the gunman — scissors, bookends, chairs, a hammer, kettle bells, heavy doorstops.
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"This is really great, and I thank you, but there's a lot of young ones comin' up and they need doorstops too," she joked.
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On a brisk day in November, the doors of a number of buildings had been propped open with crude doorstops, making facial scans unnecessary.
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Details: Warming ocean waters are weakening floating ice shelves, which act like doorstops that keep massive amounts of inland ice from flowing quickly into the sea.
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They said they pack their own doorstops, tip the hotel staff at the start of their stays, make friends with older vendors and listen to their guts.
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However, because the ice shelves act like doorstops to the land-based ice behind them, if the shelves disappear, the glaciers can start moving into the sea.
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Okay, let's face it, the Grammy awards mean very little to the megastars of the music industry—Beyoncé would need a house made of doors for all her Grammy doorstops.
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The temperatures have dropped, our holiday decorations are up, and there's a new package arriving at our doorstops daily (from all that Black Friday shopping, obviously) — it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
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Simon was a former crime reporter for The Baltimore Sun who had written two doorstops of narrative nonfiction ("Homicide" and, with writer Edward Burns, "The Corner"), both of which he turned into television series.
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After painterly emoting and Pop blare, we come upon art from a mute, industrialized universe: sculptures as plain as doorstops (Robert Morris), or light fixtures (Dan Flavin), or bathroom tiling (Carl Andre), or tool-kit trellises (Sol LeWitt).
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This is raising alarm bells in the science community, since such floating sections of ice serve as doorstops for the land-based glaciers behind them, and when the ice shelves erode or break apart, they can cause the land ice to flow into the sea.
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What sets The Grace of Kings apart from the rest of the larger pack of epic fantasy doorstops (and, these are very thick books) such as George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones or Patrick Rothfuss's The Kingkiller Chronicles is Liu's approach to the subject matter.
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This is raising alarm bells in the science community, since such floating sections of ice serve as doorstops for the land-based glaciers behind them, and when the ice shelves erode or break apart, they can cause the land ice to flow faster into the sea.
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"When you've bought systems, or have invested in big ticket products that will be in your inventory for decades, you've got no choice but to deal with the country of manufacture, otherwise you've got some very expensive doorstops, and pretty quickly," a second State Department official said.
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And publishers are producing a cascade of books on his life and thought, from "Das Kapital"-sized doorstops (Sven-Eric Liedman's "A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx"), to Communist Manifesto-slim pamphlets (a second edition of Peter Singer's "Marx: A Very Short Introduction").
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Axel — who earned his moniker from Owen's daughter Pearl, 4 — was just 3 months old when the country singer adopted him, and is fitting into the family (which also includes 6-year-old bulldog Merle) nicely, earning a starring role on Owen's Instagram account with sweet snapshots and funny videos of him attacking doorstops.
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Doorstops are simple devices that prevent a door from contacting and possibly damaging another object (typically a wall). They may either absorb the force of a moving door, or hold the door against unintended motion.
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Ford Fairlane. The Hubley Manufacturing Company produced a wide range of cast-iron toys, doorstops, and bookends. Toys, particularly motor vehicles and cap guns, were also produced in zinc alloy and plastic. The company is probably most well known for its detailed scale metal kits of Classic cars in about 1:20 scale.
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Household objects such as doorstops and bookends were also produced, but automobiles, trucks and airplanes gradually became Hubley's mainstay. Hubley's casting process involved several steps. For a particular toy, bookend, or doorstop, metalworkers would first carve a wood form, or hammer out the basic design in metal. Pressing this form into finely compacted sand created an impression for molding.
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The award itself was a figurine of Ally Sloper, based on brass doorstops which were produced as merchandising in the nineteenth century. Prize-giving of the first Ally Sloper Awards for comics creators took place at Gifford's Comics 101 comics convention, held March 19–21, 1976, at the Mount Royal Hotel, London, with TV comedian Bob Monkhouse presenting.
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In making the doorstops 'Mrs Colville covers the sides and back with green felt, and on the front is a small copper plate bearing the inscription "Brick from residence of Victoria's first Governor, 1939."' The doorstops sold for 3 shillings but for an extra shilling the buyer could 'have the brick covered with felt to match the room where it will be used'. The Red Cross had other bricks from the cottage for sale which 'would be most suitable for use as garden paving squares or surrounds' and, for 10 shillings and sixpence, landscape gardener Edna Walling would 'plan designs and supervise construction'. Also available for sale were 'other interesting relics from the cottage' including '5 windows with wood and metal frames', 3 doors, '10 panel wall sections' and 'one pair of cedar shutters'.
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A note left behind detailed the financial difficulties the family was experiencing. In mid- November The Guardian reported that an anonymous benefactor had paid off some debts at local grocery stores in Tuzla and left envelopes of cash on doorstops after the suicides. Ak Parti officials and media have denied that the recent deaths were caused by the rising cost of living.
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HOUSEHOLD editors also published Little Brown Koko coloring books, a mechanical bank, patterns for children's clothes, rugs, tea towels potholders, quilts, doorstops and yard fixtures. Little Brown Koko stories were read aloud during library story times and even featured on radio programs. The first two books sold 500,000 copies. Hunt received 1.25 cents royalty for each of the first two books.
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Cast iron heated to 3000 degrees was poured into the sand mold and, when cooled, the form would pop out. Rough edges would be filed away and the mold ready for mass production casting. Painters applied a base coat (usually white or cream but sometimes black) to cast figures whether toys or doorstops. Then, colorists used a variety of hues highlighting important details (Collectics.com).
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Residents could then open metal louvers above their hallway doors to cool individual apartments. Cross- ventilation during temperate weather was so effective that doorstops were required to prevent doors from slamming closed if left ajar. Advertisements for the Kennedy–Warren showed that the air was at least ten degrees cooler than on Connecticut Avenue. The fans were removed during the 2009–2011 renovation after central air conditioning was installed.
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In 1990 Applebaum began building unique instruments called electroacoustic instruments. One of these instruments Applebaum refers to as the "Mouseketier" consists of threaded rods, nails, combs, doorstops, springs, squeaky wheels, ratchets, and a toilet tank flotation bulb. His first instrument, the “Mousetrap,” is used in Mousetrap Music which features a recording of sound-sculpture improvisations. The objects on the instruments are plucked, scratched, bowed, and modified by a battery of live electronics.
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In the late 17th century they were widely used as decoration over fireplace mantels and English gardens, among other places. In contemporary times, queen conch shells are mainly utilized in handicraft. Shells are made into cameos, bracelets and lamps, and traditionally as doorstops or decorations by families of seafaring men. The shell continues to be popular as a decorative object, though its export is now regulated and restricted by the CITES agreement.
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Mr. H.L. Bedggood said that the family would demolish the cottage 'with regret' to build the air shelter for its factory workers but it was a choice between destroying the 'old building' or the more recently added 19th century garden. However, 'if possible' the 'front portion of the cottage' would be retained. The bricks from the demolition were turned into doorstops by 'Mrs. H. C. Colville, Burke rd, Hawthorn and sold at the 'Red Cross Variety Shop at 82 Collins st, Melbourne'.
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A cupola furnace and a foundry had been built to process the 'sponge iron' as cast-iron and a tilt hammer was on order from England. A tilt hammer was a type of large, powered mechanical hammer that was used to work the 'sponge iron' bloom and convert it to wrought iron, a process known as 'shingling'. In commemoration of Governor FitzRoy's visit in March 1850 to officially open the works, fifty cast-iron doorstops, in the form of a 'lion restant'—the lion being a heraldic animal associated with the FitzRoy family—were cast from imported pig-iron that was melted in the cupola furnace.
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His tenure at the British offices of MGM Entertainment would last 15 years. In 1958, Howard would win his sophomore Academy Award for his involvement with George Pal’s Tom Thumb at the 31st Academy Award ceremony, and continue to work on many films, including The Haunting, Where Eagles Dare, et al. A quiet, unassuming man, he made his home near the MGM studios in the village of Bushey where he and his wife, Dorothy, brought up their children, and the only sign of his illustrious film reputation were the doorstops to his study and the dining room which, on closer inspection, turned out to be his Oscars.
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Popular Photography, Volume 65 Number 6; June 2001. The first autoexposure still camera was the non-SLR Kodak Super Kodak Six-20 (USA) of 1938 with a mechanical system controlling both aperture and shutter speed via trapped-needle method coupled to external selenium photoelectric cell.Herbert Keppler, "Inside Straight: Film Festival: Old film cameras are no doorstops," pp 46–47. Popular Photography & Imaging, Volume 71 Number 8; August 2007. Schneider, "The 10 most important cameras of the 20th century." p 87Schneider, "Classic Cameras; The Top 20 Cameras of All-Time Countdown: Schneider's List, The Next Five—Do You Agree?" pp 146, 148, 150, 152–153. Shutterbug, Volume 37 Number 9 Issue 454; July 2008.
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After the Western Australian state election on 9 March, two federal ministers from the state conceded that the Gillard government's troubles had impacted on the result. Former state minister Alannah MacTiernan reported a consistent message from voters at doorstops that they would not vote for federal Labor later in the year, and called for Gillard to accept that she could not win an election and to stand down. Later in March, amid criticism of Gillard's handling of media law reform proposals—called "shambolic" by a key crossbencher—Chief Whip Joel Fitzgibbon confirmed that Labor Party members were "looking at the polls and expressing concerns". On 21 March at 1pm AEDST, former Labor leader Simon Crean called for a spill of all leadership positions and announced that he would support Kevin Rudd for leader and would himself stand for the deputy leadership.
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