The applications of such an analysis are clearly of considerable importance in aerospace and automotive engineering applications, design of telescopes, wind loading on cooling towers, box girder bridges with thin diaphragms, and other relatively slender structures.
And when that "Fawlty Towers" boxed set came back to me as my only inheritance (along with a cardigan, several atlases, and a photograph of Venice), I did a little of both.
It feels more like a rural halt – hence the water tower, signal box and gable station entrance.
For desktop computers, this means shutting down the computer, turning off the surge protector or power strip, and unplugging the cord from the back of the tower (computer box).
I especially want to to ask the new family, the Rectors: every day UPS delivers a tower of boxes to you, and every day you return a tower of boxes to Amazon, Soap.com, Zappos, and Rue La La.
Sometimes he conducts them; sometimes they crowd him out, at one point edging him right off a tower of boxes.
If the meringuelike hand cream doesn't entice you one day, the Eiffel Tower-shaped box might on another.
The tower of boxes makes a handy shelf for things we want to keep out of the implacable hands of our 2-year-old, Elliot.
In the basement of Galerie Perrotin, a powerhouse gallery from Paris that opened in New York on Tuesday night, a dollar bill shot out of a towering blue box and drifted onto a floor littered with bills and coins.
Between windswept passes, Ms. Miller's protean dancers, made human by Jenny Lai's handsome costumes, merge with the architecture: the bare back wall, a tower of boxes onstage, asking to be toppled.
