Word: hand-drawn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...interviews, visits with clairvoyants, 20,000 calls to 800-701-BOMB, the agents were not about to rush to judgment. But when they finally, carefully entered the cabin, fearing booby traps, they found a whole bomb factory, including a partially built pipe bomb, chemicals, wire, books on bombmaking and hand-drawn diagrams. The cache even included components bearing, a source told TIME, the unique signature of the Unabomber. (Every bombmaker, experts say, develops a hallmark: he may loop wires in a certain way, or set his switches at a certain angle or, in this case, create his contraptions...
...stage for his story about the hydrogen bomb, Rhodes deftly recounts the deeds of the perfidious Klaus Fuchs, the German emigre who furnished the Russians with not only a hand-drawn model of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki but also the theoretical plans for making the H-bomb. As scientist Hans Bethe remarked later, Fuchs was "the only physicist I know who truly changed history"--but he changed it by passing on nature's secrets, not discovering them...
...Aladdin, which may be the most beautiful video game ever made, features the first game characters hand-drawn by Disney's studio artists. Aladdin's release will be closely tied to that of the home-video version of the movie, which Disney predicts will be the best-selling videotape in history...
...Souza said hand-drawn Harvard maps are often inaccurate, sometimes by as much as 20 feet. The maps that the new program produces are accurate within a foot or less and can show a myriad of other details, like a network of underground cables and utilities or the exact placement of the trees in the Yard...
...which the writer likened his record to that of the Suzuki Samurai. "Stan's not always right," he tells his audience. "I'm not saying, 'Follow me across the river, this is Moses.' " He just wants them to think with him. What he thinks about are the elaborate, hand-drawn charts that fill his filing cabinets and cover every wall of his office. Weinstein runs his hands over these charts like a sorcerer, working most nights till dawn. As a technical analyst, he does not care about good companies or bad. When a reader advocates Apple Computer, he replies...