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And he then put Obinna through with a magnificent slide-rule pass to wrap up the win with two of the 120 minutes remaining.
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Hibs defender Derek Collins was still able to deliver a slide-rule pass to Miller but the young Hibs forward hesitated and Main blocked.
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The Arsenal player cut in from the right and hit a slide-rule pass into the path of Semshov, momentarily lost by Stock, who struck a low, angled shot into the bottom left corner.
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Fortunately for them Hull were even shakier and before the half-hour mark Torres doubled the lead, slipping on to a Benayoun slide-rule pass, nonchalantly rounding Ibrahima Sonko and Myhill before clipping into the net.
BBC: Liverpool 6-1 Hull
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Haphazardly constructed over 40 years, it was based on 1960s, slide-rule era science that the Army Corps of Engineers never bothered to update, even as sophisticated computer models became the norm in engineering circles.
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However, they were only brief forays into the opposition half and former Latic Valencia soon added United's fifth of the night, running on to Rooney's slide-rule pass to chip over substitute keeper Mike Pollitt and into the far corner.
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The particular slide rule that Breitling uses contained features making a host of pilot-appropriate calculations possible.
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They have a dedicated slide rule tutorial on their website for those eager to learn about this semi-archaic piece of computational technology.
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Some eye-care offices have a device called an accommodation rule that allows a technician to slide an eye chart back and forth to simulate different distances.
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The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.
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