| 21. | With every down tick on the rupiah, the thumbscrews on Indonesia's heavily leveraged corporate borrowers are tightened.
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| 22. | Getting inside is a snap _ just loosen a a pair of oversize thumbscrews and slide off a side panel.
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| 23. | Fortin barometers use a variable displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom.
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| 24. | They were habitually mistreated while imprisoned, with whippings and the use of thumbscrews as common punishments for minor infractions.
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| 25. | A theodolite is mounted on its tribrach containing four thumbscrews, or in modern theodolites, three for rapid leveling.
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| 26. | Racks and thumbscrews, well known instruments for inflicting pain, were not in use because they were regarded as cruel punishments.
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| 27. | It has a sliding clip in place of the thumbscrews normally found on a D-connector to hold two connectors together.
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| 28. | The disk, says the back of the box, rated a " Two Thumbscrews Up " by Vladimere the Impaled.
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| 29. | "Most people in Connecticut thought that trapping went the way of the pillory and the thumbscrew, " he said.
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| 30. | In the subsequent trial, Artemisia's physical state is investigated by two nuns, and then she is tortured by thumbscrews.
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