Decca continued to make wind-up gramophones until the late 1950s, long after electric gramophones were established. |
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Inventor Trevor Baylis had spent years trying to raise finance for his wind-up clockwork radio. |
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The equipment she uses means Nashashibi only has 28 seconds for each shot, filming mainly on 16 mm film on a wind-up Bolex camera. |
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The spined micrathena, common in the U.S., vibrates with such gusto that if you picked one up, you'd think it was a wind-up toy. |
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Jose has been enjoying the build-up to this game and has comfortably added to his reputation as European football's best wind-up merchant. |
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With his rouged cheeks and talcumed face, he resembled a genial eighteenth century wind-up doll waving welcome with choppy strokes. |
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These are modern, gender-bending versions of old-fashioned wind-up toys, but all made of paper and very funny. |
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The vast majority of the truants would readily acknowledge in the aftermath that they were only out for a skive following a wind-up on the web. |
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But even they can't save a body of work that looks as antiquated today as a wind-up Victrola. |
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In a masterstroke of casting, He plays Vanya as a bored and disappointed man who entertains himself by playing the Glasgow wind-up merchant. |
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So why don't you just come with me to the store and at least take a look at the wind-up clocks. |
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So what we may be seeing, in part at least, here is just part of the wind-up of a political campaign. |
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The wheel connects to a series of gears, the last of which has an integral chain wind-up drum to which the chain is connected. |
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The Association of Model Exhibitors is displaying collectors' items such as cars, railways, doll's houses and wind-up gramophones. |
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I recently took Mark Pilgrim off my links, because he wrote a very windy and tedious wind-up of Dave Winer. |
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But then came the steaming bowls of bozbashi, and, contrary to all logic, this hearty lamb soup was the perfect wind-up to the feast. |
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All summer long the tour had traversed the county and played 22 times on Kerry courses and this was the wind-up. |
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And, when a spokesman from the breakfast show phoned to tell him the good news, John put the phone down thinking it was a wind-up. |
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I thought it was a wind-up when I first got back to the coach and discovered my backpack was missing. |
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But, to be honest, when I first found out Accrington had made enquiries about me, I thought it was a wind-up. |
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At first we thought it was a wind-up but it really is a tremendous honour and we're absolutely bowled over. |
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We all came up with the idea of The Naked Gardener and my friend put it on a website as a wind-up. |
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Whatever she's doing seems more fun than chasing a wind-up toy in the woods. |
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I have seen wind-up radios and flashlights, but I was surprised to read about a wind-up cellphone charger. |
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Most of the once vociferous campaigners were too busy to talk as they listened to the latest news on a wind-up radio. |
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Those not directly engaged by his tricks and nudges and lippy asides can enjoy a master of the midfield mind games, a proven winner in the wind-up wars. |
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Mercer announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the pension wind-up business of PwC in Canada. |
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This nifty little gadget from QVC is a wind-up torch that also charges your phone. |
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The girl who provided by far the most wind-up mileage was a lady called Julie Graham. |
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Metro Radio breakfast presenter Tony Horne is topping the album charts after his wind-up CD achieved record sales in Asda stores. |
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These days he acts as RTÉ's resident wind-up merchant and pundit extraordinaire. |
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I broke the news to everyone then found out it was a wind-up so wasn't sure if the game was on or off when the real call came in. |
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The painting is of a human heart set inside a wind-up music box that has a metal rod poking out of the pulmonary artery. |
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But with Grady, it's hard to know what's true and what's a wind-up. |
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A participant who is an active member of the Pension Plan shall not withdraw any part of the participant's net supplementary contribution account, except in the event of the wind-up of the Arrangement. |
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I thought it was a wind-up but when I looked there was no-one there. |
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I will look briefly at clause 25, which deals with the wind-up of a club. |
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The July wind-up coincides with the launch by Eircell of the country's first controlled pilot project on the recycling of disused mobile phones, batteries and chargers. |
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Or the World Series where you can take a snack break during the wind-up for every pitch. |
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Bill is a victim of a pension wind-up after his company went bust. |
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Such wind-up does not apply to the continuing members, although it may be necessary, for legal or other reasons, also to value the benefits of the continuing members. |
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As a result, the application of law can cause a partial wind-up to range from an insignificant change in the pension plan to something similar to a full wind-up. |
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The issue in Peet involved a determination of entitlement during the notice period when the employee had elected to receive early benefits under a partial wind-up. |
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After the wind-up of the Host Society the Legacy Implementation Committee will become a committee of the Board of Sport Nova Scotia as per Annex B of the Legacy Management Agreement. |
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When Downing Street phoned to tell him, he thought it was a wind-up. |
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Furthermore, on wind-up of SLSA, the surplus funds of the Corporation were transferred to a second trust created for the purpose of funding future deficits arising from the operation and maintenance of the Seaway. |
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This perceptual phenomenon, called temporal summation of pain, is the subjective correlate of wind-up and is exaggerated in some patients with chronic pain. |
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His fascination both with music and collecting albums began when he played his grandmother's collection of 78 rmp records on a wind-up gramophone. |
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Everyday examples of the storage of elastic potential energy can be found in old-style clocks or watches that operate from a wound-up spring and small wind-up toys for children. |
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Any surplus is identified only for this purpose and is not related to identifying amounts that may be attributable to members on a wind-up of the entire plan. |
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But he admitted thinking it was a wind-up when the armband was left out for him prior to the win over the Highlanders a fortnight ago. |
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Accepting the above recital as true, either as proved or, in the case of AIG's alleged future intentions, for the sake of the argument, does the above make a case for the wind-up of this Plan at this time? |
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In 1993 Trevor Baylis, a British former stuntman and under-water escape artist, came up with an idea for a wind-up clockwork radio to meet the needs of isolated communities in developing countries. |
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As a matter of logic, if it equalizes the position of the full and partial wind-up groups, and it is clear that there is surplus distribution on full wind-up, then there should also be surplus distribution on partial wind-up. |
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In half an hour, your correspondent saw only a trickle of customers and just four items being sold: a pencil, a wind-up plastic frog, a quilt and a golden statuette of a soldier. |
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We will therefore not be requesting the administrator to transfer assets to the CMPT plan and will be continuing our review of the filed partial wind-up report. |
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He observed that the victorious countries were prospering and spending happily, although perhaps not happily enough to buy a wind-up gramophone, however carefully made. |
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He's into his wind-up. Here comes the pitch. Strike on the inside corner! |
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The wind-up arm has a kleptomaniacal mind of it own, filching objects from passersby and causing its new owner much embarrassment. |
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An off-line working unit, it is composed of several let-off units and an embossing and wind-up unit. |
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On telly people were watching Beavis and Butthead, the X Files and Mr Blobby, and the must-have gadget was a wind-up radio. |
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Life appeared to imitate art as a spoof BBC TV documentary about the Games organising committee this week featured problems with a wind-up countdown clock. |
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I'm a confirmed morning person, a wind-up doll who starts my day in near-manic motion and ends it with slow, mechanical tasks requiring little energy or thought. |
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