Word: pencil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think so. I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. The pencil has only to be ) allowed to be used. In human terms, the success of our work should not have happened...
...agreements may be the best bet, if they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. In any case, those aspiring to become the Armand Hammers of this generation may recall that after five years, in 1930, Hammer sold his pencil factory in Moscow...
...minimum of human intervention, it seemed from the first to have a special purchase on the truth. William Henry Fox Talbot, the Englishman who was one of photography's inventors, was merely summing up what would become the judgment of the day when he called his new process the "pencil of nature...
...shouldn't it serve as the pencil of history too? If faces and flowers could inscribe themselves on the photographic plate, why not battles, ribbon- cutting ceremonies and earthquakes? By 1839, when the invention of photography was made public, a number of illustrated periodicals were already flourishing. But it would require time and a series of technological advances before they could take advantage of the possibilities that the new kind of picture making offered...
...first place or nothing this weekend," sophomore Pete Richards said, "and if we take this tournament, you can pencil us into the Easterns...