When Thomas Tompion began making watches around 1670, the best ones money could buy had only an hour hand--and a tendency to gain or lose some 10 minutes per day.
At First Baptist church in Fountain Inn, churchgoers waited in line for nearly an hour to shake his hand after the service.
First the left-hand veil of the ballerina's skirt rises to indicate the hour, followed by the right-hand veil rising to show the minutes.
Hitting Highway 1 at Tijuana, the Pacific makes its first appearance on the right hand side and within an hour, the gastronomic haven of Ensenada beckons.
Just 20 trucks can fit in the loading bay and they can wait for more than an hour to be unloaded, largely by hand.
Bale was on hand again just after the hour finding Earnshaw in the box and the Nottingham Forest striker's shot from a tight angle was parried by Eddie Gustafsson.
Up by more than a percent with less than an hour until close, I felt victory at hand.
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He has implored the country that invented the 35-hour week to work more and expect fewer hand-outs from the state.
At 5:30 each morning, espressos in hand, they sit for an hour by a wall of windows overlooking Mount Rainier, catching up on personal stuff.
McNierney acknowledged that most customers may bypass the hand cranks but he insisted they are usable. (Six minutes of hand-cranking should produce an hour of run-time.) To test the feature, the organization took out the tablet batteries to see whether the devices could run just by hand crank.
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She often sprays the hand towels in guest bathrooms about an hour before guests arrive.
Celtic remained composed as a Caldwell header inched past Ruddy's right-hand post just after the half-hour mark.
Last weekend a young Palestinian mother named Maha Mohammed(ph) stood on the side of the deserted highway, cradling a baby and holding her young son's hand, as she tried for an hour to flag down a taxi to take her on what would normally be a 10-minute drive to the next town.
Contestants get one five-minute break every hour, but otherwise must stand bolt upright with one hand on the pickup at all times.
Protecting a first-leg 3-1 lead, Inter were forced to play more than an hour a man short after Thiago Motta saw red for a hand-off on Sergio Busquets.
Elebert glanced in a header from close range shortly after the half-hour mark that was just past Langfield's left-hand post before Aberdeen's Ricky Foster kept out an Alex Neil effort from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
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Twentysomethings spend their days rearing children, living hand to mouth in Asia, and working sixty-hour weeks on Wall Street.
You top off the last sip of your afternoon 5-Hour Energy when you notice your boss approaching, new project in hand.
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Kilmarnock had a glorious opportunity to equalise just after the hour mark when Mehdi Taouil's cross to the right-hand post found recently-introduced Simmonds, but he contrived to blast his effort wastefully over the bar.
Seemingly without breaking sweat, Spurs' second goal arrived on the half-hour mark when Jenas found Keane in space on the left-hand side of the area and he ran on to slot home past the on-rushing goalkeeper.
On July 8, 2010, when LeBron made his announcement on a dorky, drawn-out, one-hour ESPN extravaganza with Jim Gray, many pundits immediately were ready to hand the 2011 NBA title to the Heat because of the Big Three of LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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There are enough new cars (or at least second-hand ones imported from Japan) to gridlock Kingston's rush-hour traffic.
On top of that, the ten-hour weekly marathons are leavened by humor whenever possible, for Day constantly tries his hand at cracking jokes.
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To squeeze even droplet-size margins from this business, you need to put in 14-hour days minding every aspect of bottling, packaging and distributing, as well as customer hand-holding.
An hour into the descent, Ben Yehuda removed the mitten covering two gloves on his right hand so he could hold Irmak and the rope more securely.
But United extended their lead after half an hour as a sparkling counter-attack from Goodwillie ended with a shot that Olejnik tipped away with one hand before Conway's follow-up hit the post.
Still needed a further 231 to win with only five wickets in hand at the start of the day, Gloucestershire lost wicket keeper Steve Asdhead in the first hour, bowled by Wayne White for 18.
Wednesday were inches wide from giving Watford slight cause for concern with quarter of an hour to go when substitute Etienne Esajas' free-kick swung just wide of Loach's right-hand post.
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On the other hand, sticking with the traditional approach, which limits water speed to less than ten miles per hour, would leave Marines exposed to enemy fire for much longer.
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