Drag racing still uses imperial measurements – a quarter-mile track is about 402 metres. Cars are measured in inches and feet, and an explanation on the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) website explains that a Top Fuel dragster “can burn up to 15 gallons of nitromethane fuel during a...
Oppo settled into the Earth-Prince’s station and pulled all of the creatures of the earth to him, lest they should ascend to the heavens. But he left the shadows of men untouched and they rose up, freed from their prison against the earth, and tore from the feet they had been bonded...
Minutes later, his blue overalls rematerialized back over the edge, and onto the truck bed. The mechanic commenced pulling levers and pushing switches until the cable tightened, and a mighty grumbling began beneath them, thirty feet below. Dr. Sababa trembled with the terror of the exercise, a...
My feet and palms were clammy and damp, my sheets and t-shirt and hair clung to my skin. My brain stung and swelled in my skull, my nerves in knots behind my eyes, my limbs heavy and stiff about me. I kicked my comforter, flipped my pillow, rolled over. He brought me a cold ...
Instead, use specific details like “six feet two inches” or “five feet four inches.”Use sensory details: Try to engage your readers’ senses by using descriptive language that appeals to their sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.Show, don’t tell: Instead of telling your readers ...
(Note:For clarity, when needing the symbols for inches or feet, we recommend using the double-prime [″] or the prime [′], respectively, rather than double or single quotation marks.) Rule 8a.When writing out a number of three or more digits, the wordandis not necessary. However, use...
Wind, rain, tiny flames, my bare feet touching the damp backyard earth and stone. Maybe a break in the heat and a rebalancing of elements was all I needed. And I may be solipsistic but I’m not escapist. I know the fires are still raging, the rights and opportunities of the less-...
Foot-binding (月) "began between th e ages of four and seven. In two years, th e process cam e to an end. ④Th e perfectly bound foot was only three inches long and was very painful. Women who had their feet bound could hardly walk Although foot-binding no longer exists, women ...
Words matter. So does their power, their delivery, and their truth. We were reminded of that and called to action in a very big way on Wednesday, when 23-year-old Los Angeles poetAmanda Gormanbrought a suffering, divided nation to its feet with her reading of “The Hill We Climb,” ...
The treasure lay buried under the old oak tree, behind the crumbling fifteenth-century wall. In the nearby schoolyard, children played merrily during their lunch hour, unaware of the riches that remained hidden beneath their feet. Writing at Work ...