#length

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Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.


George Mercer Dawson


#clear #crystals #formed #inches #length

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.


Ron Fournier


#domestic #focus #great #home #house

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.


Morgan Freeman


#charleston #first #first thing #hospital #i

I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.


Sadie Frost


#go #i #lengths #swimming #up

For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.


Max von Laue


#characteristics #could #electromagnetic #example #extent

The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.


Gabriel Lippmann


#continue #exposure #fifteen #fifteen minutes #first

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.


Charles de Montesquieu


#lack #length #make #make up #orators

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.


Michel de Montaigne


#depends #find #length #lies #life

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.


James Nasmyth


#became #been #england #even #forging

Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.


Benjamin Netanyahu


#israel #know #length #less #little