This new release is a
hookless, push-in model with a glossy black finish.
A THE first device - known then as the clasp locker or
hookless fastener - was invented by American Whitcomb Judson in the early 1890s.
The public is shrewd enough to extrapolate from books like Jacques Steinberg's The Gatekeepers the reality that most applicants are "
hookless" and thus in fierce competition for a limited number of spaces, once the institutional priorities are filled.
The larval shell of the glochidium is ornamented with sharp hooks ("hooked" glochidia; Arey, 1921; Jeong, 1989; Jeong et al., 1993; Kwon et al., 1993; Pekkarinen, 1996) or small teeth ("
hookless" glochidia; Arey, 1921; Nezlin et al., 1994) that are utilized to adhere to the surface of a potential host.
More problematic still is the fact that the songs are
hookless, almost indistinguishable dirges, resulting in a work with limited cult appeal rather than a bona fide hit.
Customized colors are possible, as is a
hookless zone.
More than 30 fishermen cast their
hookless lines into the river near Langholm, in the Borders, yesterday in a symbolic gesture of defiance.
Darling) shows something of himself never before seen, his right hand stub,
hookless before being harnessed.