Word: hoisting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oaks. Afterward students broke ground on the edifice, pounding two thick pine trunks end on end 10 ft. into the earth to serve as a central support. Last week came "the Push." With thousands of other students in hard hats and coveralls, he worked around the clock to hoist the logs and bind them into place...
Picture an ellipse drawn on the floor. Now take that ellipse and hoist it up, rotating it as it goes. Stop it 13 ft. or so in the air, when it's at an angle to its floor position. Its perimeter, in rising, will have generated a curving shape, an extremely twisted or "torqued" elliptical cylinder. Not a section of a cone (the cone diminishes towards its vertex) but something else, a curvature whose radius does not alter but whose walls constantly change their angle. Then make it out of steel plates, 2 in. thick. You will end up with...
...book Spectacular Nature, a critical examination of Sea World. "People are no longer as tolerant of alcohol advertising, which means Anheuser-Busch needs another way to build a positive association with nature, and that's what mega-event animal saving provides." Indeed, last week the crane operator preparing to hoist J.J. to the ship's deck had to pause for workers to affix a SEA WORLD RESCUE banner to the side of the sling...
When teams seal middle and prevent penetration,none of the Arkansas guards is afraid to hoist itup. Smith and Messer have each taken over 100three-point shots, and freshman guard WendiWillits led the team with 45 threes on the season...
...weeks that winner will be decided and only then will the 46th Beanpot Champions be able to hoist the coveted trophy high over their heads while skating around the FleetCenter...