Word: steel
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...were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century European Reformation brought "a clean-shaven look" along with a new approach to eternal salvation, and in 1903 the first Gillette safety razor was introduced...
...force-of-nature theme. He looks like a huge monster; he acts like a real monster. What else can we conclude but that he is a real monster? He is not some force that has sprung up to teach mankind a lesson (that man's buildings need more reinforced steel?) and then disappear when the message has been sent...
Stylistically, "Mona" recaptures the simple sadness of the "Sweet Baby James" album. Indeed, the listener has to strain to hear the steel pedal and the satirical lilt and choke in James's voice. All in all, it's one of the funniest songs Taylor has ever written...
...pond and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion." Charles threw a rock through the plate-glass window of modern architecture last year when he decried the sterility of much contemporary British design. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he castigated a proposed steel- and-glass addition to the National Gallery as "a monstrous carbuncle on the * face of a much-loved and elegant friend...
...what the underground megamachine might accomplish is more boggling still: it would serve as a circular iron-and-steel racetrack for beams of subatomic particles, traveling at fantastic speeds, that would be smashed together in an effort to mimic conditions at the earliest moments of the universe. It would enable physicists to probe fundamental mysteries about the origin of matter and energy and could help them achieve a long-sought goal: to weave the four known forces of nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the weak force (responsible for radioactive decay) and the strong force (which holds atomic nuclei together)--into a single...