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Most larger corporations will seek to optimize efficiencies, which tends to be shorthand for cutting as many corners as possible -- using cheaper ingredients, shortening brewing cycles, using high-volume cylindro-conical fermenters, etc... while trying very hard to convey the message that nothing has changed.
Contract Brewing, Part IV - Some Thoughts From The Industry 2009
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Substitute for your spherical shell a cylindro-conical projectile.
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At the last experiment the cylindro-conical projectiles of
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The only difficulty was in fishing up a cylindro-conical projectile, the walls of which were so smooth as to offer no hold for the hooks.
Round the Moon 2003
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Into the point of a cylindro-conical slug is inserted a thin copper cartridge, loaded with powder, and primed with fulminate of mercury.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Removed from the foot by maceration a well-shaped hoof is cylindro-conical in form, and appears to the ordinary observer to consist of a box or case cast in one single piece of horn.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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One kind of cartridge -- containing a cylindro-conical bullet of copper-nickel, with a lead core -- serves for all rifles and for the machine guns as well.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901
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How can you treat me as such? me, who have demanded a cylindro-conical projectile, in order to prevent turning round and round on my way like a squirrel?”
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