Board of Navy Commissioners
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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Board of Navy Commissioners created in 1815 by Congress, the Board acted as advisors and assistants to the
Secretary of the Navy. At first, their authority was limited to procurement of stores and the supervision of vessel construction. In 1832, Congress requested that they devise rules to bring about uniformity of vessels and equipment.
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RIGID PVC STEEL-PLASTIC COMPOSITE PIPES ROLL OFF
News Wire article from: AsiaInfo Services; 3/26/2001; 247 words
; ...PVC Steel-Plastic Composite Pipes Roll off CHINA, Mar 26, 2001 (AsiaPort...PVC steel-plastic composite pipe line and turned out acceptable...PVC steel-plastic composite pipes, rigid PVC plastic pipes are lined in the internal wall...
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Warburg Continues PIPEs Roll.(News)
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; ...first time the private equity firm's PIPE had gone to support dealmaking. Previously...Nuance Communications with a $175 million PIPE infusion (at $10 per share), which...service. Already, Warburg's first PIPE play has paid off, with Nuance shares...company continues to face headwinds. PIPEs are ...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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WORKER HURT AFTER PIPE ROLLS, PINS HIM TO GROUND.(Local)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 3/6/2004; 334 words
; An employee of Syracuse Construction suffered a leg injury Friday in the town of Onondaga when a pipe rolled and pinned him to the ground, said Sgt. John D'Eredita of the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department. Marcus Miller...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Racing: Leicester pair can keep Pipe on roll.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/29/2003; 418 words
; Jump racing's record-breaking trainer Martin Pipe can continue his winning ways with a double at Leicester today, writes Stable Boy. L'Etang Bleu can set the ball rolling by...
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News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 9/27/2008; 463 words
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Entries out of the Stax alignment: part 3: double, pipe cut, & inside roll.(BASKETBALL)
Magazine article from: Coach and Athletic Director; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the stagger screen, 5 will roll to the basket and 3 moves up...he will look for a pick and roll with 5. If X5 is playing behind...wings (1 or 2). DIAG. 3, PIPE-CUT: An entry that is always...flaring to the deep corner. 5 rolls down the lane to the new ballside...area in a typical ...
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Bending Rolls accommodate pipe. (tube and pipe bending).
Magazine article from: Production Technology News; 7/1/2003; 354 words
; Roundo Angle Bending Rolls offer a combination horizontal...vertical design and complete guide roll assemblies, which automatically...hydraulically operated lower rolls, including leg-in attachments. Spiral or coil rolling of pipe can be accomplished using an...and forming and rolling ...
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Pipe under the cabinet holds rolls of food wrap.
Magazine article from: Sunset; 1/1/1986; 404 words
; To make rolls of food wrap accessible and...installed a 5-foot-long roll-holding pipe under a row of cabinets. He...screw hooks to accommodate the pipe and screwed them into the bottom...for the wrap hanging from the pipe, he screwed inexpensive hacksaw...
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Pipe project ready to roll
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 2/14/2004; 296 words
; ...project is to be completed by the end of June. The pipe will eventually join up with another pipe leading to the Bell Island treatment station...assets manager Michael Schruer said parts of the pipe were also being constructed on a clearing off...
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CONTECH Rolls out Pipe MPV; New Mobile Production Vehicle Manufactures Steel Pipe On-Site.
Business Wire; 5/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...seam edge process used in conventional pipe manufacturing. CUSTOMER FLEXIBILITY Andy...notes that one of the advantages for PIPE MPV in remote areas is the logistical...to customers. "Large diameter steel pipes often have to be trucked in one or two...of 96-inch diameter corrugated steel pipe ...
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pipe rolls
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pipe rolls ancient records of the crown revenue and...records were kept. The oldest extant pipe roll dates from the 31st year of the reign of...social and administrative history. The pipe rolls were not completely abandoned for modern...
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pipe
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...peace a North American Indian peace pipe; a calumet; the term is first recorded in the late 17th century. Pipe Roll the annual accounts kept by the Exchequer...subsidiary documents having been rolled in pipe form. See also pan pipes at Pan .
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Exchequer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...entirely certain, but it seems most likely that its institutional form dates from the reign of Henry I. The first surviving pipe roll for the financial year 1129–30 shows how the sheriffs and other royal officials were summoned to account at...
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Adelard of Bath
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...example, Petrus Alphonsus and Johannes Ocreatus. He is found in Bath once more in 1130 when his name is mentioned in the Pipe Roll for 31 Henry I as receiving 4 s . 6 d . from the sheriff of Wiltshire. There are several indications in his writings...
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exchequer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...by the barons of the exchequer and enrolled on the pipe rolls . The barons also heard pleas relating to royal financial...staff of the exchequer included clerks who wrote the pipe and memoranda rolls and other records; the chancellor of the exchequer...
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