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  • Among these functions are: "shockless" white balance for smooth, color-accurate dissolves between two pre-set white balance values (adjustable from 2000K to

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2008

  • To be subjected to this risible tactless and shockless funhouse affair for 90 minutes in an enclosed theatre will undoubtedly push you over the edge into insanity…Contemporary American horror cinema has finally reached the slow burning bottomless pits of hell.

    PROM NIGHT | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • One bare foot struck the tip of a blade of grass and his entire body came to a shockless halt.

    Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

  • No theory is worth more than its yield in practice, but already we have the shockless operation, the surgical treatment of Graves 'disease, and the control of shock and of the acute infections by overwhelming morphinization (Figs. 62, 72, and 73).

    The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915

  • This conception of the kinetic system has stood a crucial test by making possible the shockless operation.

    The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915

  • The ropes were slipped, and the spurred cow-ponies, ready for the shock, went, shockless, bounding -- loose ropes trailing afar.

    Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • Two shockless ionizing points powered by a UL Listed 5kV power supply fills the airstream with static eliminating ions.

    ThomasNet Industrial Newsroom - Today's New Product News 2009

  • Dropping with a velocity of almost two thousand feet per second though they were at the instant of impact, yet those five husky bodies came from full speed to an instantaneous, shockless, effortless halt at contact, for the drop had been made under complete neutralization of inertia " "free," in space parlance.

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

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