Sentences with phrase «week by canal»

In a week by canal you are likely to cover the distance you could cover in an hour by car.

Not exact matches

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

This happens when the baby turns around with its head facing downwards in position for birtht The baby's head is at the mouth of the uterus and it is ready to move through the birth canal in the process of laboro Therefore when you are 38 weeks pregnant and lower back pain is experienced, you know you have to be prepared for labor and childbirtht When the baby is in position for birth and the abdominal lowering happens, it exerts a lot of pressure on the ligaments that are holding the uterus in positiono As the uterus prepares to push the baby out, the back pain and contractions become more intenses These contractions are very different from Braxton Hicks contractions which can be eased by adjusting your positiono Labor contractions increase and decrease rhythmically and are the strongest just before birtht

This week on the Campbell Conversations, we're joined by Jack Kelly, who has written an intriguing new book on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in American history, and the biggest in upstate New York; the Erie Canal.

A team led by Dr. Nathan H. Lents of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY), sampled bacteria from the ear and nasal canals of 21 cadavers through several weeks of decomposition.

The paper, titled «Scientists Raise Alarms About Fast Tracking of Transoceanic Canal Through Nicaragua,» was published this week by the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Moisture accumulation and poor hygiene can be prevented by using an ear cleaning and drying solution on a regular basis (at least once a week or anytime water may have entered the ear canal).

Completely stuffed and fully relaxed from a week of good food, drinks, hospitality and excursions, we took a long nighttime stroll along the Arizona Canal (featuring the unmistakable Soleri Bridge, a pedestrian bridge designed by Paolo Soleri).

Tuck - in to authentic pizza on the banks of a venetian canal, or sip Italian wine by Rome's Trevi fountain, whether 3 nights or week Italian cities are the answer to your short break prayers.

Many other long - distance skating races and events on lakes and canals with between one and two million participants across the country did take place last week and several are still scheduled for Monday — when the thaw is forecast to set in, as cold air from Arctic Russia is pushed aside by wet and mild air from Iceland.

Levees separating Lake Pontchartrain and several canals from New Orleans were breached by the surge from the Category 3 hurricane, subsequently flooding 80 percent of the city and many neighboring parishes for weeks.