They’re launched by a custom-built crane that’s pointed downwind.
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But Mrs. Crane insists that she has pledged her heart to one dude and one dude only.
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As a place, it existed in my imagination long before I ever went there thanks to [Walt] Whitman and [Hart] Crane.
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“We rarely get smoking gun evidence in my business… but what we found was just that,” said Crane.
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I made it physical, and the actors were really hanging from a crane 100 feet above the ground.
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The research Crane was referring to has linked older fathers to schizophrenia and autism in children.
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Raud had another exceptionally large ship, the longest in Norway, and till the "Crane" was built the swiftest also.
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At that time Crane was but twenty-four, and almost an unknown man.
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A crane came and built in the topmost branches of the tree, and for many years they watched the birds rear their young.
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"A practical thought, as well as a kind one," Crane responded.
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And this dance, as Dicaearchus writes, is called among the Delians, the Crane.
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British Dictionary definitions for crane (1 of 2)
crane
/ (kreɪn) /
noun
any large long-necked long-legged wading bird of the family Gruidae, inhabiting marshes and plains in most parts of the world except South America, New Zealand, and Indonesia: order GruiformesSee also demoiselle (def. 1), whooping crane
(not in ornithological use)any similar bird, such as a heron
a device for lifting and moving heavy objects, typically consisting of a moving boom, beam, or gantry from which lifting gear is suspendedSee also gantry
filmsa large trolley carrying a boom, on the end of which is mounted a camera
verb
(tr)to lift or move (an object) by or as if by a crane
to stretch out (esp the neck), as to see over other people's heads
(intr)(of a horse) to pull up short before a jump
Word Origin for crane
Old English cran; related to Middle High German krane, Latin grūs, Greek géranos
British Dictionary definitions for crane (2 of 2)
Crane
/ (kreɪn) /
noun
(Harold) Hart. 1899–1932, US poet; author of The Bridge (1930)
Stephen. 1871–1900, US novelist and short-story writer, noted particularly for his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Walter. 1845–1915, British painter, illustrator of children's books, and designer of textiles and wallpaper