Back on the common, my grandfather removed his Sunday-best suit jacket, and with sleeves rolled up (no collar), braces holding his trousers up, cap still on and the remnants of a roll-up in the corner of his mouth, transformed into a lovely batsman, the old brown lump of a blade a toothpick in his hands.
In blue collar and braces, he looks like Springsteen in Ian Curtis's clothes – and his stagecraft, guts and passion are pure Boss.
But on this heavy winter day, you could almost glimpse what the town was like before it became a cliché — schoolchildren running through piazzas, the smell of wood-burning fires, and a handful of those crinkly old men, their collars upturned, bracing against the chill.
Generally, a few months are needed for osseointegration of the vertebrae into the spinal interbody fusion cage, and patients must wear a neck collar or back brace for several weeks after spondylodesis.
There is some debate amongst historians as to whether this roof was a hammerbeam design, a collar and truss-brace design, or a combination of the two.
Therefore, the geometrically parametric study was followed by the nonlinear regression analysis to develop an ultimate strength parametric formula for the static design of collar plate reinforced T/Y-joints under brace tension.
Investigators believe that the crane collapsed when a six-ton steel collar that was part of the bracing broke loose and fell from the 18th floor, knocking out a lower set of braces and destabilizing the crane.
After you get the maneuver performed on you by a doctor, you will be give a soft collar (also known as a soft neck brace) that you will be asked to wear for the rest of the day.
To further investigate this issue, component tests of nine pin-connected BRBs with end collars were conducted, in which the effects of brace end rotation, the gap between the core and the casing, the gap between the collar and the casing and the stiffness and strength of the casing were considered.
(Implied: what color looks better on a starched white collar?) Rye, of course, refers to the bracing brown stuff, which abounds, straight up or in cocktails with names like the Man About Town.
