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I think magnus is right, the desk is very bad, it pretends functional but it is a joke on the consumer.
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It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac – Farlane, Mac – Callumore, the great Farlane, the great
Les Miserables 2008
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It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore;
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It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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As I understood, the usual swing (apparently, it is called the magnus effect in sports engineering in general) is due to the differences in the surface finish - for low velocities, on the smooth side, the ball has a laminar flow with a boundary layer that separates from the ball surface relatively early, while, on the seam side, the boundary layer is thicker, hugs the ball surface much longer, and the flow pattern is turbulent - resulting in a wake behind the ball which is at an angle - resulting in swing.
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It comes from the Latin "magnus" (great) and "animus" (spirit or mind).
Speedlinking 3/6/07 William Harryman 2007
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Another trick was to leave flaccid that part of the serratus magnus which is attached to the inferior angle of the scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in the rhomboids.
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Another trick was to leave flaccid that part of the serratus magnus which is attached to the inferior angle of the scapula whilst he roused energetic contraction in the rhomboids.
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Labels absurdity background noise book report books bring the funny chuck norris magnus somnium misanthropy muppets my geek is showing news overthoughts queries reading rewriting the critter experiment writer's maladies writing
Overthoughts Ulysses 2010
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Labels absurdity background noise book report books bring the funny chuck norris magnus somnium misanthropy muppets my geek is showing news overthoughts queries reading rewriting the critter experiment writer's maladies writing
Book Report: Ubik, by Phillip K. Dick Ulysses 2009
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