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Mycobacteria are Gram-positive, acid-fast, pleomorphic, non-motile rods belonging to the order Actinomycetales.
I was taught that five and a half yards made up one rod, pole, or perch; thus, four rods equalled twenty-two yards, the length of a cricket pitch, ten times that made a furlong, and there were eight furlongs to a mile.
The area of an acre was standardized by Edward I as being land 40 rods long by 4 rods wide.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a "cineplex" (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of overkill: steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).