But yes, it has always been " Brass Balls " here on the Eastern Coast of the US; ) talk ) 03 : 44, 20 December 2008 ( UTC)
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The accomplice has in his possession a small brass ball or sphere, which he says is the model of a patent safe, much used by merchants in China and India.
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He inclined the plane and rolled brass balls down it, timing their descent with a water clock _ a large vessel that emptied through a thin tube into a glass.
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Swinney is among the scientists who regard the claims Bak has made for self-organized criticality as excessive, although Swinney sees at least one connection between the behavior of brass balls and life.
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At his trial he defended himself with skill and courage, but was nevertheless condemned and died, according to John Knox, with a brass ball stuffed in his mouth to prevent him addressing the people.
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During Minone's first interview with Smith Barney in 1990, a manager told her he wanted " some guy with brass balls from Merrill Lynch, " and that she would not get the job, according to the suit.
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I hardly ever see " brass balls " either, it's almost always " balls of brass " which makes me wonder if there's a specific source for the expression . talk ) 00 : 58, 20 December 2008 ( UTC)
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This brass ball is, to all appearance, solid, but to the initiated it is soon made hollow, by pressing on a certain inner circle, when the centre of the ball, which is in the shape of a small cone, drops out.
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Simply by tuning the rate and intensity of the jiggling, the Austin-based group headed by Dr . Harry L . Swinney induced the creation of tiny peaks and dimples in an otherwise flat layer of brass balls the size of sand grains.
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Researchers realized that these figures say more about the vibrational modes of the plate than the response of the sand and created an experimental set-up that minimized outside effects, using a shallow layer of brass balls in a vacuum and a rigid plate.
