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  • Uprights take up less floor space, while chests offer maximum storage capacity.

    Despite tough winter, food group says March is the time to freeze 2011

  • Uprights don't need as much suction power as a cylinder cleaner so a straight label comparison isn't the full picture.

    A clean sweep 2010

  • Uprights too are of tree height, the idea being to select trees or coppice poles of about the right cross-section, so they can be squared with an adze with the minimum of work.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Uprights too are of tree height, the idea being to select trees or coppice poles of about the right cross-section, so they can be squared with an adze with the minimum of work.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Uprights are also better for certain sport-specific training such as skiing, skating, cycling, and sports in which you use more of your quad muscles (front of thigh) than hamstrings (back of legs).

    Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995

  • Uprights are also better for certain sport-specific training such as skiing, skating, cycling, and sports in which you use more of your quad muscles (front of thigh) than hamstrings (back of legs).

    Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995

  • Uprights are also better for certain sport-specific training such as skiing, skating, cycling, and sports in which you use more of your quad muscles (front of thigh) than hamstrings (back of legs).

    Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995

  • Uprights are also better for certain sport-specific training such as skiing, skating, cycling, and sports in which you use more of your quad muscles (front of thigh) than hamstrings (back of legs).

    Hold it! Edward J. Jackwski 1995

  • Uprights held the strings of colored lights which were supplied with electricity from the city lighting company; for this was not the first exhibition of the kind that had been staged upon Lake Luna.

    The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause Gertrude W. Morrison

  • Uprights set under the bottom plank keep the girder supported after the sides and slab centers are removed.

    Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

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