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Slowly the mast swung in until it balanced at right angles across the rail; and then I discovered to my amazement that there was no need for Maud to slack away.

Then holding the lance full before his waistband's middle, he levels it at the whale; when, covering him with it, he steadily depresses the butt-end in his hand, thereby elevating the point till the weapon stands fairly balanced upon his palm, fifteen feet in the air.

`Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure, there is less necessity--indeed there is no necessity--for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears.

The tall masts are the pillars supporting the balanced planes that, motionless and silent, catch from the air the ship's motive-power, as it were a gift from Heaven vouchsafed to the audacity of man; and it is the ship's tall spars, stripped and shorn of their white glory, that incline themselves before the anger of the clouded heaven.

Racing planes and digs alike have suffered severely--the former from 'unequal deposits of half-frozen slush on their vans (and only those who have "held up" a badly balanced plane in a cross-wind know what that means), and the latter from loaded bows and snow-cased bodies.

/ AFP / Andy Buchanan 4 / 22 A picture shows a balanced sculpture built during the European Stone Stacking Championships 2019 in Dunbar, Scotland, on April 21, 2019.

For example, Figure 1 is a short shot from an 8-cavity mold with a geometrically balanced runner system.

Most of my co-definers agree, sometimes grudgingly, that generic, low-end wines with safely generic numbers could be described as balanced--though several hasten to add, "balanced but boring." Temecula winemaker Joe Hart adds that it isn't just inexpensive wines that qualify for the faint praise of balanced-but-boring; he's been drinking a lot of Australian reds lately that all seem to him to have been made by the same recipe: good chemistry, but "without any zip or zest."

His knowledge of balanced and unbalanced forces also comes in handy--helping him to rise to the top of his sport.

During the Great Depression, the greatest of all balance sheet recessions, those countries that tried to stick with balanced budget principles not only ended up experiencing the greatest economic declines, but also caused global fallacy of composition through their beggar-thy-neighbor policies.

Barclaycard's Flexi Rate credit card charges 4.9 per cent per annum until the balance is cleared for any balances under pounds 5,000 as an interesting deal, but its 2.50 per cent balance transfer fee would cost pounds 125 on pounds 5,000 - to be balanced against the benefit of cheap borrowing.

On the other hand, the family's need for change is addressed through involvement in balanced family leisure, which provides novel, challenging, and often unpredictable experiences that provide a leisure context in which families develop adaptive skills.