Ballad: Put A Penny In The Slot If my action's stiff and crude, Do not laugh, because it's rude.
Jon stuffed the ID tag back into the slot and read over the message on the card as he walked down the stairs to the street.
Jon thumbed the tag out of his waist slot and handed it across the desk.
The unused elevator shaft acted as waste chute, he slipped his newspaper through a slotin the door as he went by.
The blue sigil fell out the release-slot and was handed back to its bearer, who was drawing up his left sleeve.
Taking the disk of blue plastic from his packet, he handed it to the clerk at the desk, who dropped it into a slot in the voder in front of him.
It was placed in the corner beside the right hand gable of the shed, that is, the opposite end of the manager's rooms, and the wooden down spout from the roof passed in through a slot cut in the edge of the lid.
The slot under the blind still remained, the other window having been opened.
Assume that the motion imparted be such as to move the piston to the left (when looking at the diagram) then the air rushes through the slot S' and tube T into the chamber to the left.
The tubes T T which are screwed into the holes drilled into the piston, establish communication between the slots S S' and chambers on each side of the piston, each of these chambers connecting with the slot which is remote from it.
A little nick or slot is cut on the edge of the shorter stick, and connected with the hole in which the spindle stick is made to revolve.
The upper posts have a slot cut out upward from a point two feet from the bottom, and the slot is two feet high and six digits wide.
A slot one and a half palms wide is cut through them, beginning two palms from the bottom and extending for a height of three palms.
They are cut out from the bottom upward, the slot being four feet and five digits high and six digits wide.
An iron pin is set in round holes made through both sides of the slot of each front post, at three palms and as many digits from the bottom; the pin penetrates the lever, which turns about it when depressed or raised.
The bottom of B is slotted, and through the slot passes a stationary rod, D, which holds the bottom of the disk from vibrating while it causes the upper part to reciprocate with the swinging of A.
When her work for the day was over she hurried to the postoffice in Park Row and dropped the letter into the slot marked "Special Delivery.
They were bound in packets half an inch thick by narrow bands of papers which were obviously to be snapped as the packet was thrust into the slot of the box.
In the slot of this link plays a pin E, carried by a pendent swinging lever G F, which lever is jointed at its lower end to the slide valve rod H.
The serrated bar first rises through a slot in the table, then moves horizontally to advance the cloth, then drops below the table, and finally moves back again horizontally below the table to its starting point.
The wheel is then turned with the matrices, and the metal in its slot is afterwards discharged in the form of a linotype slug, seen in Fig.
When you pull the door to close it the end of the spring strikes the rounded end of the A peg and, sliding over it, drops naturally into the slot and holds the door closed.
L, 213) is whittled out in the form shown, and fastened in a slot cut in the door by a nail driven through the edge of the door (Fig.
The stick or peg which runs through the spools and the slot also runs through a hole made for that purpose in the spring-latch, as shown at F (Fig.
The bracket shelf slides in the slot at the side of the table, and is fastened to any height by the thumb screw There is also a smaller slide bracket on the shelf to clamp irregular objects to the side of the table.
Figure 1 shows the table with a slot cut in the side support in which to place the thumb screw of the bracket as shown on top of the table.
I reached the top of the duct and pushed against the slot cover.
I fell to the floor inside the room, the slotcover slamming behind me.
I remembered the location of the disposal slot on the Bridge now; it had been installed in the small apartment containing a bunk and a tiny galley for the use of the Duty Officer during long watches on the Bridge.
Two or three men that was trying the slot machines saw the smoke and run for the lung-testers, thinking by the look they were fire-extinguishers, which was the most natural mistake in the world.
The Professor's scheme had been to cut a long slot down through the rock floor of the city to the roof of the vast, mysterious body of water below.
This slot was placed directly in front of the spot in the city wall where the Quabos were about to emerge.
He thought he closed the intervening door behind him, but the latch failed to catch in the slot and it swung ajar for a space of two or three inches.
In the days when he sat in the slot of a copy desk Mr. Foxman had been a master hand at headlining; with disuse his knack of hand had not grown rusty.
A few holes may be bored in the side of the box for ventilation, but these, as well as the slot in the back, should be protected with tin, to prevent your captive from gnawing the openings large enough to escape.
Procure a broom-stick for the handle and place it in a bevelled slot cut at D (Fig.
Make a slot in the place indicated for a handle, and bore a hole near the front end for the crosspiece to run through.
First fasten the stringers in place, cutting a slot in the edge of the floors for the tops to set in, as shown in Fig.
This simple device consists of a piece of screen-wire, about four by five inches, stuck into a slot made in the end of a stick, and fastened in place with tacks driven through the end of the handle and clinched upon the under side.
The slotmade by removing the fibre of the wood in sawing is known as =A Kerf=.
A slot or cavity made in a piece of wood to receive the end of another piece.
A slot must be cut in the end of the box for the handle to fit in.
Cut a slot in the counter, fastening a box beneath it in which to drop tickets, and for a cash drawer fasten strips to the under side of the counter, as shown in Fig.
The coils, on emerging from the slots bend in opposite directions, and if one side of a coil occupy the bottom portion of a slot, its other side usually occupies the top portion of a slot distant from the first slot by the polar pitch.
The brush is fed through an accurately broached slotby a spring which maintains uniform pressure against the commutator throughout the wearing length of the brush.
In the Siemens winding, a wire starting, say at A, crosses the head and enters the slot marked B.
Usually the angular pitch of the coil is made just a little less than the pole pitch of the machine, in order to shorten the end connections of the coils from slot to slot.
The effect is as though the magnetic lines flashed across the slots from tooth to tooth, instead of passing across the intermediate slot at the ordinary angular velocity.
The width of the tooth should be about equal to the width of the slot minus twice the thickness of the slot insulation; that is, the cross sectional area of the teeth should be equal to that of the slots.
There must be a slot through I and another through J, for the string belt to pass through, and a hole through K for the intake of water from a faucet.
Cut a slot through the front of the can for the belt to run through, and make this slot large enough so the cord will not rub against the sides (Fig.
He punched buttons and a printed chip of plastic extruded from a slot on the desk top.
He pressed my finger into the still-soft surface of the plastic, indelibly recording the print; waited a moment for it to harden, then laid the chip in the slot of a pneumatic tube.
With the barest hint of a smile, Kelly said, "I understand it's possible to bring a ship sidewise through the Slot at Terra.
You sort of creased the Slot getting us off Torriang.
This graft is satisfactory for thin-barked species, but for the hickory, the slot bark graft is preferable.
For larger stocks I use either the simple bark graft or the slot bark graft.
If neither of the above methods are applicable, one can use either the simple bark graft, or the slot bark graft.
At the far end of the field a powerful Class I Ranger, one of the Jupiter Equilateral scout fleet, was settling down into itsslot in a perfect landing maneuver.
He shinned up into the hole, and pulled the grill back into its slot behind him.
They reached the gate to the Dutchman's launching slot and entered.
