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If we could but reach the ramparts we might find that the pirates somewhere had thinned the guarding forces and left a way open to us to the world without.

Twice the long hands of the clocks went round, Royalties thinned from their al fresco thrones, and buzzed or clattered away in their vehicles of state.

Thinning lettuce is particularly labor intensive, and most lettuce fields in California are hand-thinned (manually thinned).

Previously palms of Seewy date variety thinned by 30% removal of central strands significantly caused maximum increase in the fruit length and diameter as compared with the control and other thinning treatments (Moustafa 1997).

Three replicating pairs of thinned and unthinned treatments (ca.

Lynch invites us to compare costs of a fire like Encebado to the costs of a fire in a watershed that was previously thinned in the way we want to thin the Pot Creek watershed.

Their conclusion was based on a finding that one of the three dimethyl dialkylphosphate (DAP) metabolites of the organophosphorus (OP) pesticides--dimethylthiophosphate (DMTP)--was more frequently detected among children living in the same household with adult farmworkers who reported having thinned plants compared with children living in the same household with farmworkers who did not report thinning (92% vs.

Thus the debate has justifiably thinned as the U.S.

When he and his colleagues analyzed satellite measurement taken between 1992 and 1999, they found that large portions of the Pine Island Glacier thinned during that period.

In particular, it is often seen that the harvest rows are over-planted and hand-thinned to a final stand to avoid differential stands among hybrids while border rows are not thinned and are often at a higher density than that of the harvest rows.