Plimsoll

There’s another line, called the Plimsoll line, which marks how low you can force a loaded boat into the water safely.

Matthew Yglesias » Wonks and Teachers 2009

First he carefully removed the dirt down to a kind of Plimsoll load-line midway his neck; then he frothed the soap-suds into his red rectangular ears, which stood out like speaking trumpets; there he let it remain.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

Seven unique 'Plimsoll' charts showing at a glance the performance of each company, averages for the industry are also shown indicating the bare minimum each company should be looking to achieve.

Business Wire Travel News 2010

Competitive pressures are intensifying, so that one in three U.K. tour operators is losing money, according to market research firm Plimsoll.

Thomas Cook's Grounded Shares Renée Schultes 2011

With most of the Ark's load below the Plimsoll line, the waste would have to be carried up above the line to be dumped, or pumped out.

Alternative to Dembski's Theodicy? 2009

For a small town, the port brought the exotic: foreigners who spoke no English, who looked different; romantic names and ports of registration painted above the Plimsoll line, strange flags flapping.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

I'm getting blisters pressure sores, I've needed regular stops at the fortified drinks table and am blessing St Plimsoll for the existence of non-Booker listed Clare Wigfall because her short stories, The Loudest Sound and Nothing, have been like slipping off the running shoes and dousing my feet in a bowl of divine cold water.

Bookerthon 2007 reprise : Part One The Darkmans Debate. 2007

I'm getting blisters pressure sores, I've needed regular stops at the fortified drinks table and am blessing St Plimsoll for the existence of non-Booker listed Clare Wigfall because her short stories, The Loudest Sound and Nothing, have been like slipping off the running shoes and dousing my feet in a bowl of divine cold water.

Bookerthon 2007 reprise : Part One The Darkmans Debate. 2007

I'm getting blisters pressure sores, I've needed regular stops at the fortified drinks table and am blessing St Plimsoll for the existence of non-Booker listed Clare Wigfall because her short stories, The Loudest Sound and Nothing, have been like slipping off the running shoes and dousing my feet in a bowl of divine cold water.

51 entries from August 2007 2007

I don't trust Fitzgerald, he's a politician first and foremost; he could have brought this to a head much sooner and holed Obama beneath the Plimsoll line, but he didn't and I wonder why?

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008