Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...
...open up the vistas of vastus lateralis is Andre Courreges, 41, the brightest new star in the Paris firmament. Courreges set up his shop in 1961, soon became known as the trouser king for his slim, slit-at-the-bottom slacks and his formal trouser suits. This February his pencil-thin mannequins popped out in white dresses cut three inches above the knee and mid-calf boots open at the toe. The high-flying hem was born...
Next year what Dr. Fleming knew about the mold's bacteria-baiting byproduct appeared in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. He had found out that the mold was some kind of Penicillium (from the Latin for pencil-the shape of the magnified mold). He named its by-product penicillin. Having made his great discovery, Dr. Fleming went on to other work. He was engaged in many other experiments-no scientist knows just which of his bottles contains the Nobel Prize...
...First the concept," says Kuroko, who heads the staff of 75 designers at Sony. "You must create in your mind before you create with a pencil. We pick young designers for their ideas and their ability to invent new products. When we think we have something worth developing, many different specialists work together to see if it is producible, marketable and beautiful. All three are equally important...
This format gives Percy broad license for commentary, the most trenchant presented in a theological framework. Painters and sculptors, for example, are the Roman Catholics of art, their tools and materials are sacramental objects. Writers are the Protestants, working alone in a bare room with only a pencil, "like God's finger touching Adam...