It may be that through goods from remote parts of the L&SWR; system was lucrative, but permitting the B&ER; access to that network was the thin end of a wedge. The shareholder was informed that this incurred a dead loss of five or six thousand [pounds] a year, but that when the standard-gauge rail was laid between the Yeovil Joint [i.e. Town] station and Pen Mill, the standard-gauge stock would be used on the branch.
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Thereafter, the king performed a horse sacrifice and built a magnificent temple for the deity. However, in the last many decades many of the traditional Sora beliefs have been superseded by Christianity that was introduced by missionaries.Piers Vitebsky, Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2017. In many areas the shamanic and animist beliefs are distant memories, and in some areas, particularly around Puttasingh the graveyards of the ancestors have been destroyed.
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The two initially meet a dubious guerrillas who act as bandits lead by a renegade American M'Keever (William Mims) who desires the weapons Benson brought but concealed. Realising M'Keever is a dead loss, the two fight but actual guerrillas led by Julio Fontana (Alejandro Rey) and an American boxer trapped in the Philippines Tiger Blair (Ivan Dixon) defeat M'Keever's bandits and kill him. Benson agrees to arm Fontana's guerrilla band and meets a group of American civilians he will evacuate to Australia including his wife Ruth (Dolores Michaels) who believed him killed and is romantically involved with Fontana.
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Critics generally praised the film, while others panned the script and dialogue. , 75% of the 16 reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 6.32/10. The Sydney Morning Herald praised Steadman's acting, saying "Her performance is a masterclass in the art of elevating a mediocre script" and that "she is the factor that makes 23 Walks something other than a dead loss" Subculture Media called it a "brilliantly written film that packs quite a punch as it explores social topics that many other films would shy away from", labelling it "one of the best screenplays of 2020". Others named it an "incredibly sweet film".
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Then the rainy season starts, and a storm surge from a tropical cyclone washes away all their work. Mr. Haddy arrives under cover of night and gives Charlie a drum of gasoline and spark plugs, which he knows Allie would not accept; Charlie hides them on the shore. Allie finds them and determines to use the supplies to sail upstream, against the flow "that Mosquito Coast is a dead loss...there's death down there...Everything broken, rotten and dead is on that stream and being pulled down to the coast... I've been fighting the current all along". Charlie and Jerry want to return to the United States, but Allie tells them that it has been destroyed.
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Leonardo's canopy was held open by a square wooden frame, altering the shape of the parachute from conical to pyramidal. The Venetian inventor Fausto Veranzio (1551–1617) modifies da Vinci's parachute sketch by keeping the square frame, but replacing the canopy with a bulging sail-like piece of cloth. This he realized decelerates the fall more effectively. ClaimsJohn Wilkins (1614–1672): Mathematical Magic of the Wonders that may be Performed by Mechanical Geometry, part I: Concerning Mechanical Powers Motion, part II, Dead-loss or Mechanical Motions, published in London in 1648 that Veranzio successfully tested his parachute design in 1617 by jumping from a tower in Venice cannot be substantiated; since he was around 65 years old at the time.
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I told myself I was giving it a chance by deferring judgment, when of course I was really simply bottling it." Ket Watson of the Metro gave a negative review, in which he stated that "Dead Boss was enticing enough with its stellar cast, excellent writing credentials and intriguing premise, but in the event, this début episode was more Dead Loss than anything else." He also said that "Throttled by a cast of supporting characters cobbled together from left over bits of Psychoville and Prisoner Cell Block H, Dead Boss boasted bonkers eccentricity by the slop-out bucketload but none of it felt remotely original", and "At the centre of it all there’s Horgan, working her socks off as the ‘normal’ one. But she’s fighting a losing battle, because the script is a bit of a stinker – and she co-wrote it.
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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, published London 1850: > I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at > the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of > money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I > don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that > was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered > two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed > from drowning on any higher bargain. Consequently the advertisement was > withdrawn at a dead loss ... and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up > in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a- > crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings. I was present myself, and > I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of > myself being disposed of in that way.
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