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  • Straight-line winds as strong as 125 mph snapped trees from Scotland County to Columbus County.

    Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Storms And Floods Bring States Of Emergency In Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, And West Virginia 2009

  • WOLF: Straight-line winds are formed when you have these tremendous storms that pop up and they collapse.

    CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2006 2006

  • Straight-line winds toppled trees blocking roads there.

    CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004 2004

  • "Straight-line path, once we've come around, and have Sso-ngii keep acceleration at 0.9 gee."

    Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990

  • Contemporaneously with Straight-line Hachure and Corrugatedcoil, or shortly thereafter, our so-called "Chaco-San Juan" type made its unexpected appearance — a black-on-white variety with a lightgray, stone-polished slip, tempered chiefly with pulverized potsherds and ornamented with Mesa Verde-like designs in organic paint.

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

  • After this old rubbish pile had accumulated to a depth of 8 feet, Straight-line Hachure was introduced, first with widely spaced composing lines within heavy frames and then with closer bars and lighter framing.

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

  • (U.S.N.M. No. 329823) include Straight-line Hachure but those with solid lines, stepped triangles, ticked lines, and checkerboard figures are more numerous.

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

  • While presenting these and other data gathered within the pueblo and without, I desire once again to stress the significant fact that no fragment of Straight-line Hachure, most widely cited element on

    The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito : 1964

  • -- Straight-line linkage (before 1841) attributed to Richard Roberts by Robert Willis.

    Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960

  • Joseph Moxon in his well-quoted work on the mechanic arts defined joinery as "an Art Manual, whereby several Pieces of Wood are so fitted and join'd together by Straight-line, Squares, Miters or any Bevel, that they shall seem one intire Piece."

    Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 Peter C. Welsh

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