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Straight-line winds as strong as 125 mph snapped trees from Scotland County to Columbus County.
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WOLF: Straight-line winds are formed when you have these tremendous storms that pop up and they collapse.
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Straight-line winds toppled trees blocking roads there.
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"Straight-line path, once we've come around, and have Sso-ngii keep acceleration at 0.9 gee."
Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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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
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-- Straight-line linkage (before 1841) attributed to Richard Roberts by Robert Willis.
Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt Eugene S. Ferguson 1960
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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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