21. With every down tick on the rupiah, the thumbscrews on Indonesia's heavily leveraged corporate borrowers are tightened. 22. Getting inside is a snap _ just loosen a a pair of oversize thumbscrews and slide off a side panel. 23. Fortin barometers use a variable displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom. 24. They were habitually mistreated while imprisoned, with whippings and the use of thumbscrews as common punishments for minor infractions. 25. A theodolite is mounted on its tribrach containing four thumbscrews , or in modern theodolites, three for rapid leveling. 26. Racks and thumbscrews , well known instruments for inflicting pain, were not in use because they were regarded as cruel punishments. 27. It has a sliding clip in place of the thumbscrews normally found on a D-connector to hold two connectors together. 28. The disk, says the back of the box, rated a " Two Thumbscrews Up " by Vladimere the Impaled. 29. "Most people in Connecticut thought that trapping went the way of the pillory and the thumbscrew , " he said. 30. In the subsequent trial, Artemisia's physical state is investigated by two nuns, and then she is tortured by thumbscrews .
