Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point was to exercise these bellows. Just to go on and think, "Oh, well, other people have done it, so I can," without preparing your whole physique for it, is a failure to realize that the basic need for being good at anything is to be in a fit condition for it. What you must finally achieve is the proper initial humility toward the work and the difficult equation of the necessary confidence to carry it out. What you can do, you must...
...moment, neither side would disclose the terms of the settlement. But presumably the machinists, already the best-paid nonflying airline union (top hourly wage: about $8), got raises and reassurances about jobs, while United reaffirmed its prerogative to deploy its work force as it sees fit...
...reason for taking a tub bath is to relax," he maintains, "and yet it is precisely this that the vast majority of tubs have not permitted the user to do." The tub should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water...
Where the poison glands of the male fit into this survival scheme is what Temple-Smith has been looking into. He speculates that the poison is intra-specific, that it is used by one male platypus against another platypus. He conjectures, from examining the bodies of the platypuses he trapped, that the males attack one another more often than they attack females and that the weapon maintains the solitary nature of the animal. Platypuses, he says, probably have territories, and the poison spur could be the defense...
...meant people to play squash, they would have been born with racquets instead of hands. As it is, on the byways and boulevards of this nation, wherever the architects of our modern fortune have seen fit to erect a concrete testimonial to American sturdiness and perseverance, citizens congregate to blast resilient balls off the wall. Except at this College...