Sentences with phrase «of pigeon droppings»

17 In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing the instrument's annoying steady hiss.

Not exact matches

Early in the winter I picked up and dropped a long list of books, including Ulrich Volker's new Hitler: The Ascent, Carlos Eire's Reformations, John Le Carré's The Pigeon Tunnel, and the Cambridge Concise History of Japan.

When a pigeon arrives in his loft at the end of a race, the flier must remove the countermark band as quickly as possible, insert it in a capsule and then drop the capsule in a slot in the sealed time clock.

In her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and people.

The second finds you performing the navigation you are told as you drop pigeons out of a plane.

Over the course of a year, the pigeons dropped by with their answers, and the editors then strung together the questions and answers in a continuous narrative that reads something like the transcript of a large meeting, providing a portrait of common ground and fissures in the field of curating now.

Lovingly cradle your precious electronic cargo — and protect it from accidental spills and drops — with one of Passenger Pigeon's chic and contemporary organic - cotton laptop sleeves.

Flagged by Copyscape, a closer look indicated no actual plagiarism but snippets of appreciably similar phrases and sentences from multiple sources smattered here and there like pigeon droppings.

You have to imagine that back in the day when we had nothing more than a typewriter, stamps and envelopes, that people sent in their «resumes» via delivery pigeons and they dropped rolled resume packages at the doorstep of your prospective employer.

Scripts are simply heuristics to be pulled out of the hat at the drop of the hat, requiring little forethought re their insertions into the pigeon hole slots (I mean people's brains) before them.