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"old hand" Definitions
  1. a person with a lot of experience and skill in a particular activity

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Ms Le Pen is an old hand at this game.
Putin is an old hand, a master at both spycraft and statecraft.
An evolutionary biologist, Dr. Lord is an old hand at wolf mothering.
Gazelle Gazelle is the old hand in the world of used phones.
I was by now too much of an old hand to feel nervous.
The press agent Sy Presten is an old hand in the gossip business.
"A tin of beans doesn't feed the cows," grumbles an old hand in Coonabarabran.
But supply is often cut, so many still rely on the old hand pumps.
Yet Sanchez, who has had the greatest impact, carries himself like an old hand.
One, an old hand at cleaning up after powerful people, is Janice (Kristine Nielsen).
I felt like such an old hand by now that I could handle anything.
She's an old hand at the Grand Ole Opry, having performed there 14 times.
Bareilles may not have much acting experience, but she's an old hand at waitressing.
Some may conclude that the ambassador, an old hand, found the proposal strange or absurd.
Esther Phiri, not related to Catherine, is an old-hand (or glove) of Zambian boxing.
But it seems there's no need for both new and old-hand bakers to panic.
Its mindset is in some respects still that of an old hand in an oldish tech sector.
In the wincing mornings, in that old hand-built house, western sunbeams crawled with tiny golden dustfires.
Valenti, who also founded the foundational feminist site Feministing, is sadly an old hand at online harassment.
Bolt is an old hand of course and rolled out all the familiar answers, but always with grace.
Even if you're an old hand at making the Thanksgiving feast, it can still catch you off-guard.
Still, Lloyd's status has not been a story about a disgruntled old hand resisting change, bristling against reality.
Luckily, Stephanie was an old hand and she made the pickup and drop-off of the car seamless.
I'd been told by more than one old hand that it was Tyrolean high society's party of the year.
The room also has stained glass windows and a 200-year-old, hand-carved fireplace mantle imported from England.
By then he was already an old hand: He'd first experimented with plastics before he was even in his teens.
In the managed services space, Reliam is an old hand with 16 years of experience and a strong focus on AWS.
I might use a dab of regular old hand cream after I've washed dishes or done some other skin-drying activity.
They don't use modern technology for this, instead employing a 200-year-old, hand-powered stone mill, which is operated outdoors.
Even an old hand like me gets excited about being able to solve one of the hardest puzzles of the week.
I also met Tango, a poodle mix, who was an old hand at this, having attended the Puppy Bowl here last year.
Zellner is the old hand here, an expert in her own right who doesn't appear to love these chipper Chicago-based people.
Mora-Blanco sat next to Misty Ewing-Davis, who, having been on the job a few months, counted as an old hand.
Lucas gave Kersh a lot of latitude — he was a respected old hand who'd once judged a student film contest Lucas won.
The old hand leaned back, tipped his cap down over his eyes, and dozed off for the rest of the three hour trip.
Tiankai, who studied at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, is an old hand more cautious with his words than Zhao.
Mr. Batali, an old hand at running restaurants in Las Vegas hotels, opened La Sirena in the Maritime Hotel in Chelsea last year.
But thanks to my unsteady 13-year-old hand and baseline knowledge of makeup, this task proved difficult and messy (read: lots of smudging).
Most younger siblings get old hand-me-downs, but French Montana just gave his little brother Zack a brand spanking new BMW 7 series.
But Lighthizer is an old hand (he's 71) who has a pedigree of having worked with then-President Ronald Reagan -- and Trump likes that.
Mr. Biden is an old hand of the party's old guard, cozy with big finance and spellbound by a bygone era of bipartisan amity.
Her producer, Larry Fessenden ("Wendigo"), is an old hand at indie horror, and Ms. Asensio has skillfully rendered a fate that is horrible indeed.
The company scouted the country for old, hand-carved horses to be used on a merry-go-round erected in the center of Fantasyland.
She's an old hand at what's still arguably the ultimate newsstand coup: This is her third cover for the publication in the past seven years.
A tip for a young guy like you from an old hand: Have something ready that you can always say that can apply to everybody.
Even though automation, or partial automation, is replacing some of the old hand-trimming and weighing methods, there are still many jobs to be found.
Good old hand soap is still more available online than hand sanitizer, but it probably won't last long when people realize Purell is sold out.
Another NRL'er who played an important role on the Vanguard thermal design was Louis Drummeter, who was an old hand in the NRL Optical Sciences Division.
Its leader gets wind that some weaponry may be under development in the East, and finds an old hand to go back out into the field.
Filmed with what looks like some pretty old hand-cameras, this fuzzy footage shows all of our favorite characters returning and getting excited to start working.
His blistering success — his nine films have pulled in billions of dollars — has also meant that he is now an old hand at sit-down interviews.
Go back to 2000 and if you wanted to find a document on an extremely old person, you had to use the old hand-crank newsreel. Wow.
He tried to escape as soon as possible, obviously, but not before he pressed a harmonica—which was stuffed with Rizlas—into my clammy, 14-year-old hand.
Above our heads in the den she directs my attention to a more than 200-year-old hand-carved wood ceiling that was shipped over from Sri Lanka.
That's not entirely unexpected, because Kim is played by Tina Fey, an old hand at portraying the self-deprecating, nerdy workaholic getting a handle on her personal life.
These measured the strain and calculated the power output of the stationary bikes that had replaced the old hand grinders, which generate the power to move the sails.
Larsson was 35 years of age when he joined Manchester United, proving that loaning in an old hand can be just as useful as testing out a promising youngster.
But if you — as either Dark Souls old hand or series newbie — do decide to pick it up, we might be able to help speed you on your way.
I updated my two-year-old iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 10 last night and today I'll be updating my son's four-year-old hand-me-down iPhone 5.
Luckily, the Gamme Rouge designer Giambattista Valli is an old hand, so practiced that he manages to design three separate labels each season (Giambattista Valli, Giamba and Gamme Rouge).
Gustavo Salmerón is a longtime moviemaking professional (although this is his first time directing a feature), and Julita appears to be an old hand at playing to the camera.
Miraculously, through a combination of decade-old hand-scribbled notes, Google, manic perseverance, and stupid luck, I found almost everybody we had done stories about on that first trip.
"They're the old Hallmark commercials of today," said Mary Connelly, an executive producer of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," in its 2400th year an old hand at the crying game.
The defense would be the typical Trump operative line — "we didn't know it was wrong" — but, especially for an experienced campaign old hand like Manafort, that defense is unpersuasive.
McIlroy has been using his lifelong friend Harry Diamond for nearly two years now, with the Northern Irishman saying that he no longer needed an old hand on the bag.
As an old hand, I strongly agree with DNI Coats' worldwide threat briefing that he recently presented to Congress — that the United States is at great risk and dangers continue to mount.
Youtube has a whole bunch of vintage games featuring the old hand-check rule; go watch Michael Jordan play against cavemen and ponder whether he really was the greatest of all time.
If you're an old hand at RPGs but fancy something new, you'll love how it doesn't take itself too seriously and avoids the tropes that have begun to weigh down the genre.
Canon's tardiness leads to some significant issues (more on that in the next section), but Canon is also an old hand at making digital cameras and has perfected its menu system and controls.
But some venture capital firms searching for women are turning to an old hand — the search firm — even though investors generally consider that approach riskier than trying to land people they already know.
The protégé trusts you to treat him fairly and steer him right, while the old hand—in this case, me—wants to share his knowledge, thus insuring it's not lost with his passing.
The wide, soft body of the bottle is made from food-grade silicone that resists bacterial growth and can be cleaned in a dishwasher, in boiling water, or with good old hand washing.
Whether you're an old hand at the fire pit game yourself or you are looking for your first one ever, you're shopping in a golden age of fire pits, to use admittedly lavish language.
The writer Stephen Susco makes his feature directing debut here, but he's an old hand at tricky contemporary horror, having written the 2004 United States remake of "The Grudge" and its sequel, among others.
Hewitt, an old hand who has worked on Democratic campaigns going back to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential race, says he can't help but raise an eyebrow when he hears O'Rourke talk about eschewing PACS now.
Another opens to a round dining room with a floor-to-ceiling Arthurian mural and a 200-year-old hand-carved fireplace mantel supported by knights in the round and decorated with dragons in relief.
AF: At Davos, you're an old hand, I guess we could say, but what is-, what's the discussion that's happening this year, in terms of, you know, where we are in the global economic cycle.
The crowd is aggressively awkward Luckily Will didn't buckle, even when the audience responded to his demand for them to "sing!" with the force of a 20-year-old hand dryer in a gas station bathroom.
Cerrone is an old hand who is coming back down from welterweight, Hernandez burst into the UFC by starching Beneil Dariush on short notice and followed it up with a grindy decision over Olivier Aubin-Mercier.
Whether you are already an old hand with a trimmer and are looking for an even more powerful tool or you are shopping for your first-ever weed and lawn trimming device, we've got you covered.
In the subsequent decades, post-imperial Britain in fact found several roles: as a fulcrum between Europe and America; as an old hand at globalisation in a re-globalising world; and as a leading exponent of neoliberalism.
Lester, an old hand at dapper menace, is good as a Checquy bigwig with highly useful powers of mind control, such as putting men to sleep while he has sex with their wives in front of them.
A not-so-chance meeting with Taylor's right-hand man Mafee, whom Wendy is an old hand at manipulating, gives her enough info to determine which company the Masons are partnering with to make Doug's dream a reality.
Ms. Namekawa is an old hand at all this; she was the first to record Mr. Glass's complete études, and is the wife and piano-duo partner of the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, this composer's most notable champion.
He was the old hand replacing Phil Lord and Chris Miller; the pair had clashed with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and legendary writer Lawrence Kasdan (who co-wrote the movie with his son Jon) in a rather entitled fashion.
Even if you're an old hand at navigating the shallow waters of small plates, it can be unnervingly easy to spend more than $100 on food and drinks at Saint Julivert and still wonder whether you've actually had dinner.
Spielberg is an old hand with special effects, but here, the world looks artificial and shiny to a fault, and Sophie's interactions with it are reminiscent of the stiff integration of animation and live action in Disney's Bedknobs And Broomsticks.
He's gone from a new hope to an old hand, with a lined, expressive face and a gray beard, beneath which lurks a mischievous sense of humor, a yearning to perform and a joy in sharing "Star Wars" war stories.
Maria Collett had never run for office before this year, but by now, crisscrossing her neighborhood in Ambler, Pennsylvania, she's an old hand at it: thumbing through addresses and names on a canvassing app, offering warm introductions through skeptically opened screen doors.
This preference for an old hand is reflected in the top two picks, with Biden and Sanders each having been in politics for decades, and both having run for the Democratic nomination before (Biden in 1988 and 2008 and Sanders in 2016).
She frames the narrative around the journey of cholera, "an old hand at pandemics", which terrorised London, New York and Paris in the 19th century, to draw out worrying parallels between the mistakes of the past and today's treatment of pandemic threats.
This is really just to say that I'm an old hand at this game, but I frankly find it uplifting that on most Sundays, today included, I get the charge of discovering another clever verbal gymnastics routine that I never would have thought of myself.
Then, hop on the Canal Streetcar to City Park (about a 30-minute ride) where you will find Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, 16 charming, old-fashioned rides (bumper cars, monkey jump, miniature train) including a century-old hand-painted wooden carousel known as "flying horses" to locals.
"The CTS has made enormous sacrifices since 2014, and many of the old hand are dead, killed in Anbar Province and elsewhere," said David M. Witty, a retired colonel with the United States Army Special Forces and former adviser to the counterterrorism service, known as CTS.
SoftBank chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son also was asked about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and basically pulled the old "hand-over-eyes, fingers-in-years" routine: What they're saying: Son also said he has no plans to comment further on the topic, except that SoftBank continues to be in talks with Saudi's sovereign wealth fund for a commitment into SVF2.
Now consider a few entities that got off the blocks without a penny from Papa V.C.: Microsoft (Bill Gates sold a five-per-cent share of his already profitable company in 1981, solely to bring an old hand onto the board); the Mosaic browser (federally funded and released free of charge); and Craigslist (which diverted an existing advertising market into its coffers).
The Trappist rubric "Living in silence" illustrates centuries-old hand gestures which were "developed to convey basic communication of work and spirit".
The text of Bangladeshi passports is printed in both Bangla and English. However, the old hand written passports were written in Bangla, English & French language.
In 1844, the old hand press was superseded by the first power press. Stereotyping was introduced in 1846, steel and copper printing in 1856 and electrotyping in 1858.
Enlarged edition, edited by Sebastian Evans; English Dialect Society, 1881. # ‘Personal Piety, or Aids to Private Prayer for Individuals of all Classes,’ 1851. # ‘Britain's Wreck, or Breakers Ahead. By an Old Hand on Board,’ 1853.
Objects on display include a 400,000-year-old hand axe from Swanscombe in Kent, and a napkin used by Queen Elizabeth I which features her embroidered portrait and an image of St George slaying the Dragon.
In Ireland, old hand-painted furniture is often associated with hard times, with poverty, and with a time many would rather forget. In this animated documentary, 16 pieces of traditional folk furniture are repaired and returned home.
Owned land in Greenham and along the Enborne at Peckmore in Greenham that abutted Sandleford and was later part of its demesne.Smith v. Kemp, 5 William & Mary; and an old hand drawn map of c. 1700 in Berkshire Record Office.
The Schwechater Bier brewery commissioned Kubelka to make an advertisement for its beer.MacDonald 2008, p. 186. Kubelka shot using an old, hand-operated 35 mm scientific camera. The camera had no viewfinder, and Kubelka largely ignored the composition of the images.
Whitley has released three solo EPs, is a member of Black Dub, and was the vocalist on their self-titled debut album."An Old Hand Plucking At the Heartstrings", The New York Times, November 18, 2010. Retrieved March 23, 2012.
The old hand pump on display in the Market Square in Burra and a crane displayed at Port Adelaide were products of the company. A display of gold mining equipment in Pine Creek, Northern Territory features a company advertisement of the period.
When watching the film, there are multi-colored tints in a single scene, reminiscent of the old hand painted color shorts of Georges Méliès. The last 6 chapters almost exclusively feature them. May Yohe appears as herself in episode opening and closings.
Kalina, Paul, "Old Hand Returns with New Tricks", The Age, 8 November 2007. Retrieved 2018-06-08. His numerous credits include several Charles Dickens adaptations and the eccentric ex-detective Brian Lane in New Tricks. Armstrong is also an accomplished stage actor who spent nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
One of the most distinctive calls of this type is often referred to as the "rusty pump" owing to its squeaky resemblance to the sound of an old hand-operated water pump. The blue jay (and other corvids) are distinct from most other songbirds for using their call as a song.
"Old Hand at Jazz". The New York Times, 27 April 1958, p. X13. By 1930, the census showed him working at a record store. He first got into radio in 1937, at a radio station in the Bronx, WBNX, where he began as an afternoon disc jockey, doing a show called the Afternoon Swing Session.
The Grove Ferry Picnic Area is near Upstreet, in Kent, England, on the site of an old hand-drawn ferry that once crossed the River Stour here. The area is maintained and managed by Kent County Council. It is beside the Grove Ferry Public House, built in 1831 and now managed by Shepherd Neame.
A chain pump is made of an endless chain carrying a series of discs that descend into the water, and then ascend inside a tube, carrying with them a large quantity of water. They are a simply made, old hand-powered pumping technology In the 18th century they were used as ship's bilge pumps.
Adam Sherwin "Katharine Viner appointed editor-in-chief of the Guardian", The Independent, 20 March 2015.Peter Preston "Enter Katharine Viner at the Guardian: new editor, old hand", The Observer, 22 March 2015. In the film The Fifth Estate (2013), Katz was portrayed by actor Dan Stevens."Newsnight post is cool for Ian Katz", Evening Standard, 16 May 2013.
Nefer is Mendoza's team-mate on the expedition to Tudor England in In The Garden of Iden. She is a Zoologist specializing in livestock but was apparently recruited in Ancient Egypt. As Mendoza is obsessed by plants, she is obsessed by breeds of sheep, cattle etc. Being much older, she plays the "old hand" to Mendoza's rookie.
Mark takes the book, hoping to meet with Corbis and defeat him. In a ghost town in the desert, Corbis gives Mark a drink of water from an old hand-pumped well. Mark drinks but then spits out the bitter water. He challenges Corbis to a battle of faith, then draws a pistol and aims it at him.
She is also an old hand at brawling. In one scene she got in a scuffle with Tusk-anini, a alien (see below) and even after he knocked her down with the first punch, she put him in the hospital with a concussion. All in all, a great lady to have on your side when things get tough.
Carbon has always been known as a lawless town for those that like to fight. Many a gun fight did take place in the streets when the coal mines were booming. Until 1998, the only water supply was on what is now called the "pump road". On the edge of this road, sits an old hand pump.
After the early decades of the 19th century, iron increasingly replaced wood in gearing and shafts in textile machinery. In the 1840s self acting machine tools were developed. Machinery was developed to make nails ca. 1810. The Fourdrinier paper machine paper machine for continuous production of paper was patented in 1801, displacing the centuries-old hand method of making individual sheets of paper.
While awaiting Clarke's arrival, Wavell initiated a successful deception against the Italian forces at Sidi Barrani. Clarke reached Cairo on 18 December, to be greeted by Tony Simonds – another old hand from Palestine. Wavell put Clarke in charge, albeit under great secrecy, of broad strategic deception operations in North Africa. He held this position, under subsequent Mediterranean commanders, for the next five years.
He has made her a kite, too. Come Christmas morning, the two of them are up at the crack of dawn, anxious to open their presents. Buddy is extremely disappointed, having received the rather dismal gifts of old hand-me-downs and a subscription to a religious magazine. His friend has gotten the somewhat better gifts of oranges and hand-knitted scarves.
The Seton River is a tributary of the Fraser River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The name is relatively new, and encompasses what had formerly been the Seton Portage River or Portage Creek (aka Portage River) and Seton Creek (which shows up on some topos as "Section Creek" due to a mis-read of old hand-written maps).
There are many manufacturers who provide scrapers in a wide variety of styles. Many woodworkers prefer to make their own card scrapers by cutting them from old hand saw blades. Card scrapers are sometimes used in working with ceramics, where they may substitute for the more traditional wooden rib. The scraper is also useful for trimming damp or dry clay.
"Young Hayley's already become an old hand." _Daily Mail_ [London] 8 June 2007, ED IRE: 53. Also in 2007, Westenra's vocals were featured in the soundtracks of the movie Flood and the television series, Jekyll, composed by Debbie Wiseman, in the UK. In November 2007, Hayley Westenra successfully staged a Japan "Treasure" concert tour in Fukuoka, Sapporo, Tokyo, Sendai, Nagoya, Osaka, Yokohama, Hiroshima.
He begins digging for the escape exit that Hopis always had to keep from being boxed-in by their enemies. He finds it, and sets a plan in motion for the return of Eddie and George. Miss Leon exits one way, while McKee uses old hand and footholds to reach the level where Eddie is. Eddie shoots Ellen, and then seeks McKee.
A number of Indian artists hand- painted movie billboards and posters. M. F. Husain painted film posters early in his career; human labour was found to be cheaper than printing and distributing publicity material. Most of the large, ubiquitous billboards in India's major cities are now created with computer-printed vinyl. Old hand- painted posters, once considered ephemera, are collectible folk art.
Ted Terry (11 yds), second from left, wins the 1925 Burnie Gift in 13 secs. After leaving school he drifted into the ranks of professional foot-running. Based in Pyengana, on Tasmania's east coast, he was listed as being trained by his father, Mr. E. Terry (who is an "old hand" in Tasmanian athletics).Burnie Sports, The Mercury, (Friday 2 January 1925), p.8.
Alaska lost two of their first three games in the Governor's Cup and the team decided to bring back old-hand Chambers to replace Gay. The Milkmen returned to the championship round this time against the Swift Mighty Meaties, Sean Chambers led Alaska to their second PBA title and their first since they last won back in 1991, winning over Swift in six games.
New bridge over the Darling River at tilpa, low river, with the old hand-operated ferry on the river bank, on right. The topography of Wallandra Parish is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid). (direct: Final Revised Paper) Tilpa is a 120 km downstream from Louth, New South Wales and 250km upstream of Wilcannia. The parish has a number of billabongs.
Hand-fed male spectacled parrotlet, 5 months old Hand-fed parrotlets are much more popular in aviculture. Babies are taken from their nest at a few weeks old and fed a nutritionally rich pablum-like mash, rich in protein, fats, and minerals necessary for development. Chicks are fed using a syringe starting at three to four times per day. They consume of mash per feeding.
Hakim Said collected significant Islamic manuscripts from around the world and gave them to the Bait al-Hikmah. The Manuscripts section of Bait al- Hikmah library houses old and rare, centuries-old hand-written manuscripts of the Quran. The periodical section has 2,255 Journals (current), and about 28,010 bound volumes of journals (back issues). The clipping section has more than 3.68 million clippings on over 1,300 subjects.
Soon, he had investments of his own in natural gas, copper, steel, coal, and railroad industries. By 1899, he had become one of the richest men in the United States. Henry Rogers was also an old hand at West Virginia short line railroads. He had helped build and sell several earlier enterprises which were initially not a great deal different than those proposed by Page.
A significant number of Malankara Orthodox Christians & Mar Thomites also migrated from surrounding areas. In the early 19th century, Dr. Claudius Buchanan visited Ranni and was presented an old hand written Syriac Bible, from Ranni St. Thomas church. Ranni was a part of Central Travancore region before the unification. Until the formation of Pathanamthitta district in 1982, Ranni was a part of Kollam district.
Director Chuck Jones created Sniffles as a potential new star for the studio in 1939. The character was designed by Disney veteran Charles Thorson, an old hand at designing cute characters for Disney's Silly Symphonies. Thorson's design was highly derivative of a character he had designed for Disney, the country mouse from the Oscar-winning short The Country Cousin (1936). Both the country mouse and Sniffles are, in a word, cute.
The Printery continues also, under the ownership of William Miller and Mary Abbene, and their print shop, complete with old hand presses and warped wooden floors is a rustic and charming highlight on our historic tour. In October 2010, Richner Communications, a publishing company that owns several small publications throughout Long Island and New York, including the Herald Community Newspapers and The Jewish Star, bought the Oyster Bay Guardian.
Leer is an intelligent soldier in Bäumer's company, and one of his classmates. He is very popular with women; when he and his comrades meet three French women, he is the first to seduce one of them. Bäumer describes Leer's ability to attract women by saying "Leer is an old hand at the game". In chapter 11, Leer is hit by a shell fragment, which also hits Bertinck.
At age 21 he moved to Red Wing, Minnesota with an old hand- operated printing press and some type; within two months, he was publisher and editor of the Red Wing Republican, in which he promoted his strong political views. Hubbard (front left) with members of the 5th Minnesota Regiment in 1862.During the American Civil War, Hubbard joined the Union Army in 1861 as a private in the 5th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.
The first ten Island Press books were printed on expensive paper on an old hand-operated press, with hand-set lead type. In the mid-seventies this press was sold to Sydney University where it was used to print diplomas for a few years. In 1979 Philip Roberts returned to Canada and gave Island Press to the "discriminative eye" (Imago, September 1994) Philip Hammial. PH moved to Woodford in the Blue Mountains in late 1994.
When Guru Nanak was on his first Udasi he travelled towards East of India and passed through Bihar. He came and stopped at Kedli Chatti (Kalan) situated on the banks of and he taught about Sikhism to local population which attracted a lot of locals. Guru Tegh Bahadur, also visited the place while his travel towards Gaya and Patna from Varanasi. Gurdwara also have a 200 year old hand-written Guru Granth Sahib.
The near-novella "Freya of the Seven Isles" (completed in March 1911) was inspired by a story told to Conrad by a Malaya old hand and fan of Conrad's, Captain Carlos M. Marris. For the natural surroundings of the high seas, the Malay Archipelago and South America, which Conrad described so vividly, he could rely on his own observations. What his brief landfalls could not provide was a thorough understanding of exotic cultures.
They were unaware that one of Page's investors (who were silent partners in the venture) was the powerful Rogers. Henry Rogers was an old hand at mineral and transportation development, and his projects and investments seldom failed. His tenacity, energy, and organizational skills had led him to become one of John D. Rockefeller's key men at the Standard Oil Trust. Always ready to do corporate battle, Rogers wasn't about to have the Deepwater investment foiled by the big railroads.
He brought with him six USAF officers who assumed key roles. Marty Winkkler headed the Shuttle-Centaur program at General Dynamics. Steven V. Szabo, an old hand on Centaur who had worked on it since 1963, was head of the Lewis Research Center's Space Transportation Engineering Division. He was responsible for the technical side of the activities related to the integration of the Space Shuttle and Centaur, which included the propulsion, pressurization, structural, electrical, guidance, control and telemetry systems.
The museum exposition covers various fields of agriculture: crop growing, cattle breeding, and horticulture. A variety of exhibits are devoted to ethnography: documents and photos as well as facilities reflecting the traditional way of rural life. Exhibitions , www.azerbaijan.com. There is an old hand-mill for grinding flour which is more than 100 years old and an oil lamp of the same age, a stone extracting grape juice, ceramic jugs for milk whipping and butter production and stirrups, saddles.
Masjid Raya Sultan Riau built in 1818, is an exquisitely kept yellow mosque, also called the sulfur-coloured mosque. It has many domes and minarets. The unique feature of the mosque is that the mortar used was the special egg-white mortar as the cementing material; eggs were presented to the Sultan by his subjects on the occasion of his wedding. The mosque houses a rare 150-year-old hand written Koran in its Islamic library.
Although much has changed, the hotel has many original features including the underground blue stone cellar which may even pre-date the building of the original brick hotel. The hotel sits on a large triangular allotment (approx. 75 x 40 x 86 metres), which is surrounded by a dark green Colorbond fence. Many old hand made bricks were uncovered during the construction of the fence, possibly the chimney remains of the Freemason’s Tavern which burnt down in 1879.
Cloonfush does not have any church, shops, schools or other infrastructural amenities. The inhabitants are therefore dependent on the neighbouring town of Tuam and the city of Galway for these services. Until the late 1960s, there was no mains water supply to the village, with each household dependent on obtaining water from the hand water pump located in the village. A local committee was formed and a borehole was sunk near the old hand pump location.
Soon after, Vito Bonventre was murdered at his home on July 15, 1930. This led to Maranzano being elevated to boss of the gang and a conflict with Masseria and his allies referred to as the Castellammarese War. During the Castellammarese War, between 1930 and 1931, Masseria and Morello fought against a rival group based in Brooklyn, led by Salvatore Maranzano and Joseph Bonanno. Morello, an old hand in the killing game, became Masseria's "war chief" and strategic adviser.
For a while, the animosity between the men and women was palpable. One "old hand" who showed his dislike by refusing to let women sign out before him, ensured the first seats on the buses leaving the factory were then occupied by the men. They steadfastly refused to give up their seats, leaving the women "hanging on by the straps". The obstinate fellow came on board after women welded his lunchbox to a piece of steel.
Street was also given production credits for most of the songs. Writing credits were also given to Jim and William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain on the song "Cool About You." Guitarist Kevin Armstrong was credited on every track with the exception of the now two-year-old "Hand in Glove" which credited Johnny Marr as guitarist and the rest of The Smiths as musicians. Armstrong also co-wrote two tracks with Shaw and was given production credits on one track.
The longest straw and old hand Blind Mooney is killed at the hands of the second, Bland, with Dawes as the witness. According to their plan, Bland and Dawes get sentenced to death. North, in the meantime, has had to realise the true nature of his affection for Sylvia. At first, he attempts to keep away from her, but this unfriendliness is ill-received by Frere, who gets his revenge on the convicts open to North's words, especially on Dawes.
The Historical Museum of the Palatinate () is a museum in the city of Speyer in the Palatinate region of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is situated across the square from the Speyer Cathedral. The museum's focus is on the History of the Palatinate; it has a collection of about 1 million artifacts, the oldest being an approximately 190,000-year-old hand axe. The museum is among the most important in Germany, and is known for its special exhibitions.
After attending public school in Fukuoka, Hiroki enrolled in Kuwasawa Design School in Tokyo, from which he graduated in 1991. (Bidou, see Sources, below) On a trip to the United States in 1991 Hiroki visited museums in major cities, some of which had large collections of Asian art. He was attracted to Japanese Noh masks. Fascinated by these old hand-carved masks and their history as part of an ancient art form, he decided to learn how to carve such masks.
Between 1956 and 1958 Mcqueen attended printmaking classes at the Royal Melbourne Technical College, now RMIT University, where she developed a fascination for lithography. To be able to print at home, she converted an old hand mangle into a press, which she continued to use throughout her artistic career. As her printmaking skills and experience increased she was asked to teach for one day a week at RMIT. This was later expanded to include instructing students in free drawing techniques.
The Tower is of solid stone. The building of it on Carhoo (Ceathru) hill, 600 feet above sea level, provided work during the Great Famine, at the instigation of Reverend Charles Gayer, Leader of the Protestants, in an attempt to win converts. Twenty-seven feet was its original height, but at the turn of the century, the old hand was removed and an extra thirteen feet of stone was added to its height. A new hand was placed, roughly at the beginning of the extension.
Its buildings covered an area of , and the firm gave employment to between five and six thousand persons. Its rapid growth was by application of steam power and machinery to the production of carpets. The Crossley firm acquired patents and then devised and patented improvements which placed them in advance of the rest of the trade. One loom, the patent of which became their property, was found capable of weaving about six times as much as could be produced by the old hand loom.
The review was welcomed by many of the engineering institutions including the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Nuclear Institute – many of whom highlighted their existing schemes to encourage women and young people into the industry. One key outcome from the report was support for the Tomorrow's Engineers programme, a national initiative to give every 11- to 14-year-old hand-on experience with a local engineering firm. A year on from the report the programme had reached 50,000 school pupils in more than 1,200 schools.
By 1915, Carl Nielsen was demanding glissandos on timpani in his Fourth Symphony—impossible on the old hand-tuned drums. However, it took Béla Bartók to more fully realize the flexibility the new mechanism had to offer. Many of his timpani parts require such a range of notes that it would be unthinkable to attempt them without pedal drums. In the 17th and 18th centuries, timpani were almost always tuned with the dominant note of the piece on the low drum and the tonic on the high drum—a perfect fourth apart.
The women travelled across the county collecting stories, written material and artefacts, all of which they brought back to the 17th-century cottage they shared at Askrigg in Wensleydale. In the early 1970s they donated their collection to the former North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. In 1979 this gift formed the basis of the collection now housed in the Dales Countryside Museum at Hawes. Their masterpiece was Life and Traditions in the Yorkshire Dales (1968), although many rank The Old Hand Knitters of the Dales (1951) alongside it as a local history classic.
In 1979, he produced a television special for NBC, featuring most of the SNL cast, called Mr. Mike's Mondo Video. Because of its raunchy content, the network rejected the program, which was then released as a theatrical film. O'Donoghue returned to SNL in 1981 when new executive producer Dick Ebersol needed an old hand to help revive the faltering series. O'Donoghue's volatile personality and mood swings made this difficult: his first day on the show he screamed at all the cast members, forcing everyone to write on the walls with magic markers.
In 1972, the third generation of Ipsens, Lillian and Hans Emil, continued the park's operations, bringing in new attractions but keeping the old hand-operated roundabout and the rowing boats. To keep up with the times, they enlarged the buildings, laid out a minigolf course and brought in a magician for daily performances. Finally, they developed a waterland with slides, a crazy river and a special section for children, so succeeding in maintaining interest. Recently there have been caves with jobos (on Bornholm, a jobo is an underground being) and jobo exercising circuits.
After investments in several Chinese funds (including the other two of the founders of New Oriental-Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang's Zhenfund), Yu Minhong didn’t feel the joys of investment, so in 2014, he decided to set up an angel investment fund together with Sheng Xitai, an old hand in PE industry. The fund was named Hong Tai Fund (or Angel Plus) and focused on the angel and early-stage projects in media, culture, education, entertainment as well as high-tech and mobile Internet industries. It also had plans to invest in Silicon Valley.
In 1654, Pere Simon le Moyne, a Jesuit Priest, made the first recorded voyage of a European through the upper St. Lawrence. He was sent from Montreal to establish a mission at Oswego. On his way, he stopped at the village of Toniata where he observed native Mississauga Indians fishing for eel. According to an old hand drawn map on file in Ottawa, the site of Toniata Village is believed to have been near the river, on what is now the Canadian mainland, just northwest of the foot of Grenadier Island near Mallorytown Landing.
Ismail Sulemanji Khatri (12 August 1937 – 28 April 2014) was an Indian craftsman, especially known for his invention of the Bagh print, a part of the centuries-old hand block printing practice. He started block printing having moved to Bagh in the 1950s. As well as using traditional blocks, some 200–300 years old, he had new blocks made with designs inspired by the jali patterns found locally and at the Taj Mahal. He improved upon the red and black dyes previously used, and developed new vegetable-based dyes.
Many items that are considered obsolete and worthless in developed countries, such as decade-old hand tools and clothes, are useful and valuable in impoverished communities in the country or in developing countries. Underdeveloped countries like Zambia are extremely welcoming to donated secondhand clothing. At a time when the country's economy was in severe decline, the used goods provided jobs by keeping "many others busy with repairs and alterations". It has created a type of spin-off economy at a time when many Zambians were out of work.
Depiction of a medieval hunting park from a 15th-century manuscript version of The Master of Game, MS. Bodley 546 f. 3v Fallow deer in the park of Powderham Castle, Devon Old hand-split oak deer-fence at Charlecote Park in Warwickshire In medieval and Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, a deer park () was an enclosed area containing deer. It was bounded by a ditch and bank with a wooden park pale on top of the bank, or by a stone or brick wall.Dry stone wall at Dyrham Park The ditch was on the inside increasing the effective height.
Gurau was born and grew up in Berlin.Death of Samoan Old Hand Pacific Islands Monthly, July 1961, p73 He began working in the timber industry, including a stint in Russia. He later joined the Germany Army, and following two years of training, moved to German South West Africa in 1911 to work as a railway construction clerk. In 1913 he spent time in New Zealand and Tonga, before moving to German Samoa shortly before the outbreak of World War I. After settling in Samoa he worked as a clerk for O.F. Nelston & Co, before becoming a cocoa planter in Lesea.
London Evening Standard. Retrieved 20 December 2018 old hand-painted advertising sign for the Hammersmith Palais de Danse on its surviving rear boundary wall, as could be seen in 2004 from the platform of the Hammersmith station, on the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, of the London Underground Film producer and director Richard Weller made a documentary for BBC Television about the venue's history, titled Last Man at the Palais. It was first screened on BBC Four on Christmas Eve 2007. Near the end of the film, ballroom dancer Lyndon Wainwright performs "The Last Waltz" on the dance floor of the Palais.
The province of Belligamme [Valligamam] has 14 Churches, the chief where-of is Telipole a large structure, with a double row of Pillars; the House thereunto belonging is the work of the Jesuits, beautifyeo with a pleasant Garden, handsome Court and most delicious Vineyards affording most sorts of Indian Fruits, and water’d with several springs . . .Agnes Thambynayagam, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (2003) Old hand drawn picture given below shows two small hills in the background. The two hills are between Keerimalai and Maviddapuram which are about two kilometers from Tellippalai. The hills may have been visible from Tellippalai during those times.
It seemed only natural that this largely blank canvas would absorb the creative spirits still present in South Africa; coaxing material in spoken, written and sung form. The initial intake of announcers16, who were all professionally trained as teachers, proved to be jacks of all trades, interchangeably writing, producing and announcing. Given no guiding course on broadcasting, these announcers crafted their own styles, laying the foundation of a broadcasting culture that celebrates uniqueness. The realm of radio drama became the home for wordsmiths like novelist Muntu Xulu, a young D.B.Z Ntuli, linguist and oral poetry critic P.N. Msimang, and old hand R.R.R Dhlomo17.
A metal plate was fixed over the bomb damage and she returned to Kent with another load of soldiers. Back in Ramsgate, in Timbrell's own words, "By then I was an old hand, so I was given four trawlers to add to my fleet. They had come down from Scotland and their old skippers had 20 years' experience – more sea time than I will ever get in my life." The Guards sergeant, and a few of his men, elected to stay with Llanthony, and had gathered together what they could find by way of weaponry, including Bren guns and anti-tank weapons.
In January 2015, Lederer published an article in the American Studies Journal blog announcing his new novel-in-progress, "Saving America". Lederer told Deutsche Welle television that the new book is about "an insanely optimistic older man, Don Hotey, who picks up a 19-year-old hitchhiker named Sancho, and together they set out in an old hand-painted VW van in hopes of getting America to the sweet place Don believes it is destined to be. Mixed success." Lederer was invited by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to read from the manuscript at the Muhlenberg Center in November 2017.
An old hand at suppressing third worlds, the Major continues to make plans against the Daemon. He ruminates about his past as a heavy for the big corporations, killing people who have threatened their exploitation of foreign countries. He escapes an attempt on his life by Loki, but the experience makes the Major realize that he may not win this war. In battling the Daemon, the government has been forced into a difficult alliance with private corporations employing the Major, giving rise to private armies who use the cover of night and corporate propaganda to create a state of fear.
Zia Park was once thought to house chemical warfare training; however, the only evidence suggesting chemical warfare training as reported by Kirtland AFB personnel is an old hand drawn map identifying this area as a chemical warfare training area. No other recorded maps have identified this area as a chemical training area, so the exact history of this site is in question. KAFB personnel thought this site was used during WWII, as a possible tear gas training site.Kirtland AFB Zia Park and Asphalt Dump Area Site- Specific SAP/QAPP March 2012 There were two schools on the base.
A Metrovick employee had been told to begin building the receivers and asked for an example, but the team had only one airworthy receiver and had to give them an old hand-assembled bench model with the instructions that it wasn't to be used for a production design. Sure enough, Metrovick returned a design based on this model, which proved useless. The team also contacted Cossor and provided complete details of the required design, but when they returned their first attempt six months later it was completely unusable. When they asked for improvements, Cossor never responded, too busy with other work.
The place he stayed in and the lakefront next to it is now called the Gobind Ghat. It has a memorial inscription and this shrine was built with the sponsorship of the Maratha Empire, after the widespread Hindu-Muslim wars in the final decades of Aurangzeb rule and the collapse of the Mughal Empire. The shrine has an old hand written copy of the Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib and a hukumnama believed by Sikhs to have been written by Guru Gobind Singh. Both these have been preserved by a Pushkar Brahmin priest, a descendant of the priest whom the Guru met.
In 1975 the Schools Commission established the Aboriginal Consultative Group (ACG) to advise the Commission on Aboriginal Education issues. In 1976, the Schools Commission supported the establishment of state based Aboriginal Education Consultative Groups which were to advise their respective state Departments of Education. The NSW AECG was formally established in 1977 under the leadership of Bob Morgan an old hand at agitating for improved Aboriginal education who, prior to heading NSW AECG, was on the National Aboriginal Education Committee. The NSW AECG's charter was to provide advice and recommendations on all issues of Aboriginal education to the NSW Department of Education.
Vietnam Railways employee sells corn from a cart The first food carts probably came into being at the time of the early Greek and Roman civilizations with traders converting old hand-carts and smaller animal-drawn carts into mobile trading units. Carts have the distinct advantage of mobility, should a location not be productive in sales, as well as for transporting goods to/from storage to the marketplace. However, the use of carts exploded with the coming of railways. Firstly, highly mobile customers required food and drink to keep them warm within the early open carriages.
In secret collusion, each declined to negotiate favorable rates with Page, nor did they offer to purchase his railroad, as they had many other short-lines. However, if the C&O; and N&W; presidents thought they could thus kill the Page project, they were to be proved mistaken. One of the silent partner investors Page had enlisted was millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and an old hand at developing natural resources and transportation. A master at competitive "warfare", Henry Rogers did not like to lose in his endeavors and also had "deep pockets".
In March 2015, Viner won a majority in the ballot of Guardian and Observer editorial staff as the favoured successor of Alan Rusbridger as The Guardians editor-in-chief. Viner received 53% of first- choice votes from the 964 staff who participated, and was thus shortlisted for selection."Katharine Viner wins staff ballot for Guardian editor", theguardian.com, 5 March 2015 Former deputy editor and rival,Peter Preston "Enter Katharine Viner at the Guardian: new editor, old hand", The Observer, 22 March 2015 Ian Katz (editor of the BBC's Newsnight television programme since 2013), was also on the final short list of two.
She gave her opinion about why she would prefer a park like this to a park like Disney and gave her opinion in the form of a review of each park. First of all, price is mentioned in the article and she says compared to somewhere like Disney, it is not so expensive. She also enjoys the historical and educational aspect of a vacation spot and with the park’s “…century old hand painted, wooden carousel”, the park has that historical aspect. She goes on to describe how to make a day of it based on other nearby activities and businesses.
Another dirty, dangerous and extremely physically demanding job Page 42 Interlude - linking Nat the hewer and Nancy Page 44 Song "The set rider" – the miner responsible for the smooth flow of tubs from the face to the shaft. This job explained by Nancy, the girlfriend of Bobbie, the set rider, as is her love for him. Page 47 Interlude – after Nancy’s tales of love, poor Bobbie is embarrassed – the next singer is introduced as Jack Spring, an old hand and past his prime. Page 49 Song "Aw'm a poor aud shifter noo" - describing the many tasks involved in the running of a pit.
Some of them still show upon them the vestiges of the soil and clay to this very day. Among the spoils, we found an old hand-written book, the majority of whose pages were already sticking together, clumps upon clumps. My grandfather sat a long time, slowly soaking them in water and with great patience, after he had checked and saw to his satisfaction that the letters were not being erased by soaking them in water. I still remember how the pages were strewn across the entire room of my grandfather's workshop, of blessed memory, so that they could dry.
Sheet music for Tulip Time In 1912 Stamper began writing songs for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1913, contributing Just You and I and The Moon, Without You and Everybody Sometime Must Love Somebody. He is credited as "additional music" for the Follies of 1914 and 1915, but he wrote the majority of the music for the Follies of 1916. and was on an equal billing with Louis A. Hirsch, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin. The music of the Follies of 1917 was written by Stamper and Raymond Hubbell and he was described as "an old hand" for his work with Louis A. Hirsch by the Follies of 1918.
Meanwhile, due to the chain of events, Cartman decides Connor's scheme has become too complicated and tries to quit, but Connor convinces him to stay involved by revealing that the townspeople of South Park have lied to Cartman about his true father. Although they previously claimed his hermaphroditic mother was his father, Connor insists this is a lie. Cartman confronts his school teacher Mr. Garrison and Garrison's old hand puppet Mr. Hat, who admits to Cartman there was indeed a cover-up. Mecha- Streisand roars threateningly and continues her reign of destruction as the episode ends on a cliffhanger, setting the stage for 201.
Bayazidi and Jaba also played an instrumental role in preserving old Kurdish literature by collecting more than 50 volumes of old hand written Kurdish classic texts and sending them to the Library of Saint Petersburg. These texts which have been preserved until now, include the epics of well known classical poets such as Faqi Tayran, Malaye Bate, Malaye Jaziri and Mem û Zîn (Mam and Zin) by Ahmad Khani. This collection was finally published in 1961 by M.B. Rudenko, titled About the hand-written Kurdish texts in Leningrad. During the period 1858-1859, Mahmud Bayazidi and A.D. Jaba, wrote the first Kurdish-French and French- Kurdish dictionary, published in 1879.
The old hand Grahame Thomas and the tall and ungainly Ian Redpath were used as replacement openers when Simpson was ill or injured and Thomas was kept on after the captain returned, but made little impression. Redpath would later become the main opening batsmen in Ian Chappell's Australian powerful teams of the early 1970s. The imaginative strokemaker Doug Walters was the real find of the series, making 155 on debut and 115 in the Second Test. Later he was found to have a weakness against fast bowling and English bowling conditions, but this was not a problem he faced in 1965-66 and he soared.
A review in the Adelaide Advertiser of January 1897 stated: "The Shadow of Hilton Fernbrook is...an admirable story of adventure of the fin de siècle kind. There is villainy enough to supply more than a dozen sensational novels. Mr Westbury handles his perhaps too abundant material with the deftness of an old hand and is equally at home when the sensation of the moment is an exhibition of hypnotism, a description of the New Zealand Wars or an earthquake". Australian Fairy Tales, 1897 Much of Westbury's writing explores the quest for justice and is often in sympathy with the indigenous New Zealanders, the Maori.
At the beginning of the 21st century, a large water bottling plant was built on the outskirts of town by Nestlé, where water is bottled from Bennet Hill Springs, a source of Freestone water. Ironically, the plant removes all the natural minerals from the water by reverse osmosis and later adds a specific mixture of minerals to give it a consistent taste. The old hand pumps that stood on public land were made inoperable because of liability issues that could occur. The hand pumps can still be seen on private property around town, and some people still believe in the curative powers of the mineral waters.
Page 52 Interlude – The old hand is gently escorted from the stage by the young putter. Page 54 Song "The Deppity" – Described as "Big, bluff an’ blusterin’ Burdis Clark" Page 57 Interlude - Page 59 Song "When Geordie, thoo an' aw wiz young" - Two pitmen reminisce about their younger days. Page 61 Conclusion – With the social event concluded the words show the drinkers returning home, with much to think about and to discuss. Note – Each of the two preludes, the conclusion and all of the interlude includes a song (or recitation in verse) of sometimes two verses, sometimes many more, setting the scene for the next act.
The household items of daily use by rural folk on display are cooking vessels, jars to store pickles, salt containers and serving utensils made of stone, wood and mud. Brass and copper vessels used for worship, tools and tackles used for harvesting and climbing trees to pluck coconuts and areca nuts, large sized pots made of mud used for storing grains, old hand-looms are also exhibited here. The paintings in this museum hall are made from natural colours and these were part of marriage decorations in tribal houses; which is still a prevalent practice among many tribes, particularly pertain to the work culture of tribal women.
Cora Goffin as Alice in 'Alice in Wonderland', from a 1914 publication. Cora Goffin was an actress on the London stage from her teens, where she often played children, including boys. She played Little Lord Fauntleroy, Colin in Mother Goose, a principal boy in Jack and the Beanstalk, and Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1913), sometimes billed as "Little Cora Goffin." "Cora cannot have been more than twelve years old, but she spoke the lines of her long part with the assurance of an old hand, danced on her toes like a little prima ballerina, and took her encores with the enviable enjoyment of unspoilt childhood," commented a reviewer in The Guardian.
Reviewers have described these paintings as raucous works of visual wit and poignancy, nostalgic evocations of 1950s interstate travel, old hand-colored postcards and 1960s concert posters, and fantastical, inexplicable assemblages that simultaneously recall elements of the work of Roger Brown, the Pattern and Decoration movement, and Philip Pearlstein. Drasler used his 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship to drive cross-country, gathering ideas that would emerge in his "Road Trip" works. He drew inspiration from the expansive, big- sky vistas of the Midwest and the vernacular architecture of the American roadhouse. He reconfigured these inspirations on canvas with crazy-quilt patterning suggesting both the landscape's vast reach and its man-made division into property.
Old hand Alvin Martin partnered Steve Potts, Tim Breacker and Dicks with longterm custodian Luděk Mikloško in goal to form a stout defence that made up for the deficiencies elsewhere in midfield and up front, which had seen a number of players move on, including fan favourite Matty Holmes, to newly christened league champions Blackburn Rovers for £1.5 million. Redknapp spent the summer adding to the team's defence. He had previously captured Danish International centre-back Marc Rieper in one coup and quickly followed this up by signing another international, this time the Croatian Slaven Bilić in January 1996 for a then-club record £1.65 million fee. West Ham progressed to tenth place in 1995–96.
During the 1972 indoor season, he tied Kirk Clayton's two-year-old hand timed world record in the 50 yard dash of 5.0 at a meet in Toronto, which Mel Pender also tied twice a month later. The following week, he set the 60-yard dash record outright, stopping the clock at 5.8 at a home meet in East Lansing. Neither record has been surpassed as of 2019, as races run in yards are rare, with records for these having been discontinued in 1976, and hand times ceased to be accepted from 1977. A few years later, Washington said that his biggest disappointment had been not qualifying for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
It was originally manufactured by the Fay & Scott Machine Shop. James Hartness acquired manufacturing rights on behalf of the Jones & Lamson Machine Company. and manufactured an improved version, developed under the management of Ralph Flanders.. In 1937 Roe, writing for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, framed the importance of the Fay automatic lathe to the capabilities of machine tools by saying that, "This machine does for the engine lathe what Spencer did for the old hand-operated turret lathe." These machines took an entire class of turned work formerly requiring an operator to execute the series of movements necessary to shape a piece of metal (manual control) and allowed the same work to be done automatically.
Improvements to both the road and Homer Tunnel are planned by Transit New Zealand, though a widening of the tunnel is considered unlikely due to the high costs involved. In the 2010s, the road received a variable message sign (VMS) traffic information system to inform travellers on the road of incidents and closures, in a more timely fashion than the old, hand-changed signs. The system received a 2012 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Award, partly due to the information system using satellite links as their primary communication system making unnecessary the much more costly laying of communications cables along the road. The message signs are powered by small hydro-power systems with battery back-ups.
However, if the C&O; and N&W; presidents thought they could thus kill the Page project, they were to be proved mistaken. One of the silent partner investors Page had enlisted was millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust and an old hand at developing natural resources, transportation. A master at competitive "warfare", Henry Rogers did not like to lose in his endeavors, and also had "deep pockets". Instead of giving up, Page (and Rogers) secretly planned and had surveyed a route to provide a new, third major railroad, all the way to new coal pier facilities at Sewell's Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads, fully away from the railhead on the Kanawha River.
Carrere, a middle-class family man convicted of financial fraud, arrives in prison where he finds himself sharing a cell with three others- Lassalle, an old librarian who murdered his wife; Paquerette, a childlike lunatic who ate his infant sister and Marcus, a beefy young transsexual woman (whose crime is not mentioned) who yearns for a sex-change. The cellmates discover, hidden behind a loose brick of the cell-wall, an old hand-written journal which belonged to a prisoner named Danvers in the 1920s who mysteriously disappeared from his cell. The book is filled with incantations and symbols of black magic. Although sceptical, Carrere reads aloud one of the incantations and the prisoners are shocked when a bright, burning symbol briefly materialises on the floor.
In spite his documented failures in business, there was little doubt that the one real skill he could count on and his true calling would always be his writing as a humorist. Being an old hand at political speech writing, he helped many local politicians who appreciated his chops. The well-known entrepreneur and friend Felipe Valls supported his work, and González could be seen often hanging out at Versailles Restaurant until 2011. González last years as a writer found him a fitting place in Radio Marti, where the US Government production of his last controversial political satire show La República de la Cigüatera (The Republic of Fish Poison Illness Ciguatera), as well as other comical sketches, were broadcast for the first time in 50 years back in Cuba.
The book received critical praise. In The Monthly, Ramona Koval wrote that the work was "devastating, utterly compelling". In an essay in the website The Conversation, the writer was of the opinion that Garner "fails to address the broader issues of gender inequality and male violence". In The Australian, Peter Craven wrote that the book was "some kind of masterpiece and Garner creates, moment by moment, with a breathtaking suspension of judgment, the whirlwind that blows across every corner of this story like a hard rain that comes with the force of a desolation, sparing nothing." Craven also noted that Garner had previously written about legal cases as "an old hand at using a novelist’s technique to create a pointillist image of a trial" in The First Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation.
Set in cell-block J of the Bass Women's prison in Wisconsin, the show focuses on the interactions among the prison inmates. The show's cast include Peggy Cass, Julia Campbell, Antoinette Byron, Blake Clark, Denny Dillon, C. C. H. Pounder, and Wendie Jo Sperber. Campbell stars as Vicki Springer, an overachieving yuppie, who was brought to Bass Women's Prison for supposedly shoplifting (she had been actually framed on the charge by her scheming no- good husband), where she had to deal with the inmates. Eve Shipley (Cass) was the old lady prisoner, having been there for almost 10 years and was kind of the old hand prisoner, helping others get used to the routine; Dawn Murphy (Pounder) was a bad tempered African-American woman who had murdered her abusive husband; and Bonnie Harper (Byron) was in for prostitution.
Stone recycling is usually done by specialists that monitor local demolition activity, looking for stone-containing houses, buildings, bridge abutments, and other dimension stone structures scheduled for demolition. Particularly treasured are old hand-carved stone pieces with the chisel marks still on them, local stones no longer quarried or that are quarried in a different shade of color or appearance. There is no national or regional trade in reclaimed stone, so a large storage yard is required, since the recovered stone may not be quickly sold and reused. The recycled dimension stone is used in old stone buildings being renovated (to replace deteriorated stone pieces), in fireplace mantels, benches, veneer, or for landscaping (like for retaining walls). The Parthenon in Athens underwent a major reconstruction prior to the 2004 Olympics Related to stone recycling and stone reuse is the deconstruction and reconstruction of a stone building.
Back in Rome, he ran an upmarket fashion boutique "Il Papavero" ("The Poppy") as a cover in the 1980s when he was making his way in the heroin business. Narcos alla milanese, Corriere della Sera, October 16, 1993Top world cocaine dealer deported from Colombia to Italy, AFP, July 6, 2013 In the late 1970s and 1980s he was involved in heroin trafficking with the Sicilian Mafiosi Gaetano Badalamenti and Gerlando Alberti, organizing shipments from Turkey through Italy to the United States.Cooperation Between Organized Crime Groups Around The World, by Alison Jamieson, Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik 1999, December 1999 He put them in contact with Corsican gangsters from Marseille and convinced the chemist André Bousquet an old hand from the French Connection days, to set up a heroin-refining lab on Sicily. He also traded heroin to the U.S. on behalf of the Mafia bosses from Palermo Stefano Bontade and Salvatore Inzerillo.
The exhaust system was also slightly redesigned, and on newer models, the drive shafts received homokinetic joints instead of usual universal ones. Also, the exterior rear section of the body was redesigned with the tailgate extended and license plate as a part of it (so it could have a lower opening, now bordering with the rear bumper), due to which it also received new, vertical taillights, replacing the former VAZ-2106 horizontal ones and VAZ-2102 chromed tailgate knob, which was replaced by a simple plastic handle (which now opens from interior; below the driver's seat, in contrast to previous which required a side doors key to be opened exclusively from the outside). On newest models, the old hand-adjustable, square black-metallic (previously chromed) side mirrors, which originated from 1970s VAZ-2103 were finally replaced with larger plastic ones featuring automatic adjustment. The previous front Lada badge was also replaced with the current and larger one of ellipsoid design.
There were students and peasants, the wise and the brave, And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave, And children who thought me hard-hearted, for they On that sanctified sod were forbidden to play. But the old man, who saw I was mourning there, said: "We come, sir, to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid, And we're going to raise him a monument, too A plain one, yet fit for the simple and true." My heart overflowed, and I clasped his old hand, And I blessed him, and blessed every one of his band: "Sweet, sweet tis to find that such faith can remain To the cause and the man so long vanquished and slain." In Bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave, And freely around it let winter winds rave Far better they suit him the ruin and gloom Till Ireland, a nation, can build him a tomb.
It was first published March 1896 (even though its masthead was dated January 1896.) The first Kalayaan issue has never been followed. In 1895, the Katipunan bought an old hand-press with the money generously donated by two Visayan co-patriots Francisco del Castillo and Candido Iban–who returned to the country after working as shell and pearl divers in Australia and had some money from a lottery win. They bought the press and a small quantity of types from Antonio Salazar's "Bazar del Cisne" on Calle Carriedo, and Del Castillo transported it to the house of Andrés Bonifacio in Santa Cruz, Manila. On January 1, 1896, Valenzuela accepted the position as the Katipunan "fiscal" in exchange of Bonifacio's consent to send the printing press on his house in Calle de Lavezares, San Nicolas, Manila, "so that he could assist and edit a monthly publication which would be the Katipunan's main organ".
The film was mostly shot in-camera and features a mixture of long exposure photography, stop- motion animation, live-action, and CGI. In June 2008 Director Michel Gondry was quoted in Paste magazine as saying "Clicking on a PES film is to open a safe and suddenly see a million ideas glittering and exploding. The only reason you close the door is to re-open it just after and discover what will pop this time." In December 2010, PES's short "The Deep" premiered in Episode 1 of Showtime Network's "Short Stories" series (PES's films were the source of inspiration for the series)."Showtime SHORT Stories - Trevor Noren / PES Interview", The Reel (UK), January 24, 2011 "The Deep" features various metallic objects including old hand tools, nut crackers, calipers, film lenses, faucet knobs, chains, skeleton keys, a bike horn, a belt of bullets, and a piece of a flute that come to life as mysterious sea creatures.
Around this same time, John's younger brother, Lindley Murray Moore was founding an Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, N.Y.. The bricks used in the John Moore house were made on his farm, one of the five springs there supplying water to form a shallow pool, where oxen trod the clay to proper consistency to use as mortar for the walls and foundations. Lime was secured by burning stopes found on the hillside, and it is more than probable that John Moore was the first to use Elgin lime for building purposes. The size, shape and pale strawberry tint, prove beyond doubt the old hand-made brick, so easily distinguished from the later product of brickyards of larger size and deeper red as to color. The stones used in combination with bricks were gathered from the farm, and the solid face this old home presents to the world today makes this an outstanding example of the skills and determination of Ontario's early pioneers.

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