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  • Thumbnail for Petróczy-Kármán-Žurovec
    control, the tethers had to remain in tension, as if the engines faltered the tethers could slacken and control would be lost. On 10 June the aircraft...
    8 KB (1,029 words) - 09:41, 29 April 2023
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    around the world and is used almost exclusively as a fuel for steam-electric power generation. Lignite combustion produces less heat for the amount of...
    42 KB (3,739 words) - 17:27, 1 August 2024
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    and deteriorate in the engine with little or no warning. Upon failure of these internal plastic components, the timing chain slackens (becomes loose) and...
    9 KB (726 words) - 17:14, 30 May 2024
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    times as high as Ghana's. The Japanese economic growth has slackened considerably since the late 1980s. Productivity in the United States grew at an increasing...
    133 KB (15,695 words) - 21:33, 28 July 2024
  • small amount of rope on a bollard or winch drum pay out – a controlled slackening of a rope under tension. survey vessel Any type of ship or boat that is...
    252 KB (31,690 words) - 22:15, 15 July 2024
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    USS Tutuila (ARG-4) (category World War II auxiliary ships of the United States)
    Luzon-class internal combustion engine repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II, The Korean War, and The Vietnam War as well...
    22 KB (2,519 words) - 22:26, 7 June 2024
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    Bastrop County Complex Fire (category 2011 wildfires in the United States)
    The passage of a cold front ushered in a decrease in temperatures on September 5. The movement of Tropical Storm Lee east away from Texas slackened winds...
    78 KB (7,475 words) - 18:54, 2 July 2024
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    approaching car, it is his duty to slacken speed and have his car under such control that he can stop immediately if necessary. ... The rule adopted by this court...
    146 KB (16,615 words) - 04:32, 7 July 2024
  • soon as the ratio of capital goods to consumable goods slackens, costs exceed money distributed, i.e. the consumer is unable to purchase the consumable...
    82 KB (10,492 words) - 13:07, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Gembloux (1940)
    panic among the artillery and the infantry battalions at the front felt their fire support slacken. Roaming his front on a motorcycle, Mellier judged that...
    69 KB (10,296 words) - 22:51, 2 May 2024
  • Assured clear distance ahead (category Pages using the Graph extension)
    as to involve risk of collision, they shall slacken their speed or, if necessary, stop and reverse, and the express provision is that every steamship shall...
    224 KB (27,361 words) - 21:20, 1 August 2024
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    Simon Newcomb (category Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society)
    it?", He suggested that even if a man flew, he could not stop. "Once he slackens his speed, down he begins to fall. Once he stops, he falls as a dead mass...
    32 KB (3,586 words) - 21:46, 18 April 2024
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    Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir (category People of the Ancien Régime)
    in a slackening in the enforcement of restrictions against public entertainment. Lenoir had a more tolerant attitude toward the theaters on the boulevard...
    22 KB (2,680 words) - 01:49, 17 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of steamboats on the Yukon River
    Rush Steamboats., at page 62 ("At the exit from the White Horse Rapid the river turned abruptly to the right and slackened to become a quiet stream ...")...
    262 KB (6,228 words) - 01:23, 31 July 2024