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We have, unfortunately, no complete example of this undercut work easily accessible in our public collections.
There was even a book war, with rival publishers of the same book undercutting each other on price.
He found where the bank sloped easily into the water, with no sharp drops and no undercutting.
With your chasing tool drive around the inside of the oval, undercutting until the stone fits in.
Luke undercut a huge block of the stone, and it fell, turning lazily, and crashed on the pavement.
In that case they will be undercutting men, and preparing a position of extreme difficulty after the war.
They employed a six or seven foot deep pit about nine feet long dug with slightly undercut side walls.
In economic molded work undercutting of details should be avoided as this is only possible in piece or elastic molds.
Allowing for undercutting and a certain amount of top clearance, our calculation seems within the bounds of reason.
The doorways are arched and richly molded, and the hollows are filled with bold carving deeply undercut.
In carving undercut, remove superfluous fat, and cut slices from end to end in same manner as upper portion.
Unable to exclude competitors from much of the raw material of its databases, West would be undercut by competitors.
They do not seek admission in some special way, nor do they wish to undercut men by accepting lower salaries.
It can be used for various purposes, such as undercutting, clearing out sharply defined angles, outlining the drawing, etc., etc.
Fortunately the bank they had selected had been heavily undercut by the stream and would afford them protection.
Care must be taken to avoid sharp edges or any undercutting, if the seal is to free itself easily from the wax.
All this foliage is natural, much varied, and undercut with such boldness as to stand out in very great relief.
The handle is ornamented with two marginal notches; the basal point is long and spine-like, and is deeply undercut.
With two chops and an undercut he laid them on their backs, and the remaining men refrained from declaring war.
Undercutting will not be possible in sandy soil; also some form of support to keep the walls from caving in is required.
It is a mistake to suppose that undercutting each other's prices is the only method of competing between rival firms in trade.
With rare exceptions where adjustments are still necessary, the wage orders have absolutely stopped this undercutting of men's wages by women.
It is well to have the bottom of the spot reasonably level but not necessarily smooth and the sides slightly undercut.
The undercutting, as I call it, of a flat impression is seen wherever a turn of events is carefully prepared and deliberately approached.
The second pitch is taken on the right, the rock being so much undercut that we can pass behind the water.
There are probably a thousand islands of that size with similar high rocky centers and turtle-shaped, undercut rocks off their points.
The use of undercutting of this kind is like every other technical process, liable to abuse through too much being made of its effects.
He tumbled them in, then undercut the edges of the hole with the heater, so that chunks fell in and covered them.
After a few years the foliage or flowers undercut to the last degree, begin to shed their leaves, and appear broken or ragged.
Who will invest the money, knowing that any product can be undercut by copies that don't have to pay the research costs?
Here there was a stretch of caving bank; the earth, undercut by the river current, was lumping off in chunks and slices.
That enabled them to undercut their rivals in every market of the world, but at the same time they were bleeding themselves to death.
They undercut his prices so that he could not sell his books, then when his bills came due he could not pay them.
These are so much undercut, so large, and so intricate in their design, that I believe they must be of wood, and not of stone.
My attempt to safeguard the future of the pasture will simply be undercut by others anxious to get theirs while the getting is good.
You know I used to undercut the bank while the boys worked the big stone out for me and loosened up the dirt here and there.
Some fishes there are, however, so curiously shaped as to make the first or "female" mold so "undercut" as to render it impossible to get a return cast.
It yields gracefully in coming out of the undercuts and around corners, takes every detail perfectly, and in the jacket its shape is always the same.
The screw threads have flat faces and peculiarly undercut sides; the width of the face and the base of the thread being one-half the pitch.
The undercutting on the leading face of the bolt thread gives room for the metal to conform itself to the nut thread, which it does very completely.
Then jointly they chopped down to this sawed line, and there was the undercut complete, a deep notch on the side to which the tree would fall.
These views have been attacked as involving a differentiation unfair in the first instance to women, but in the second instance to men, because opening a way to undercutting.
The two outside sticks are full of bold sharp work, undercut in such a manner as could not be performed any other way than by the hand.
This blasting brings down the coal off the face, clear from the rock roof to the undermined portion, for such a distance as it has been undercut.
I cannot tell you how much you may undercut the front sight, assuming you intend to use it in competition, as the rules alter so from year to year.
The blocks containing the fossils are channelled around, plastered over top and sides, undercut and carefully turned over, and the under side trimmed and plastered. d.
They undercut his figures even when it was a loss to do so, knowing that in the end they would ruin him and drive him out of their path forever!
He was caught by a falling roof just because he wouldn't take the trouble to make sure that the draw slate overhead was solid before setting to work to undercut the coal.
Partial undercuts had been made, rollers worked out of stone by the cutter placed underneath, and the undercutting completed along a plane which sloped slightly upward into the tunnel.
It has, however, all the general effect of undercut work, and is the only possible way of obtaining this effect in wood where a large quantity of such ornament is required.
Even more noticeable is the difference in the capitals, those of the western bays being lighter, freer, and more undercut, though less interesting and hardly as beautiful as those of the earlier part.
The peculiar, though consistent, pattern is caused by forces resulting from the earth's rotation; these forces give the water a motion that tends to undercut the right banks of the streams.
The effects of hydraulic action have played an important role in widening the canyon, for recession of the cliffs away from the middle of the canyons has been caused in part by undercutting.
Before this principle was pointed out soldiers invariably dug their trenches with a slope at the top, and as they got farther down the sides became more vertical and sometimes were even undercut.
A crossing can only be accomplished where the water has chanced to undercut one of the banks and at the same time to leave a level place beside it at the foot of the other bank.
When the effective undercutting ceases because the softer bed is no longer accessible, the point of maximum wear is transferred to the top of the hard bed just where the water begins to fall.
If he starts from the shoulders of a companion, he can at any rate enter the chimney; but its walls are undercut, and he needs all his strength to brace himself firmly between them.
Coming along from here by the side of the lower jaw, you skin by undercutting almost to the inside of the mouth, taking care not to cut the thin membrane which holds at the extreme edge.
One great feature of the art was to sink the incision a little broader at the base than at the top, and then to force the softer metal in, so that, by this undercutting, it was held firmly in place.