| 单词 | structure |
| 例句 | James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron in early 1932 posed questions about atomic structure and behavior that could not be fully processed without an understanding of chemistry in addition to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hence a large society must be structured and centralized if it is to reach decisions effectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so it came about that the course of this man’s life was decided purely on a magistrate’s opinion about the structure of his shoulders. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On his face, the family bone structure seems even sharper. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But at least a conventional play has structure. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It reflected class differences in working conditions, stress, diet, neighborhood, family structure, and a host of other social and economic factors. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They had the same diamond-shaped structure as the grazers, but somehow they had evolved, on their front and rear single legs, a wheel. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There are still a few houses scattered around—all of them modest, narrow, wood-framed structures stabilized with brick buttresses—and a couple of buildings in what was once the central business district. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As with Pythagoras, in Darwin’s model, every organism carried information to build organs and structures in miniaturized form—except in Darwin’s case, the information was decentralized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Twenty men worked during the day shift producing replacement parts for mine machinery and fabricating a variety of ductwork and support structures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But,” Rick interrupted, “for you to have two horses and me none, that violates the whole basic theological and moral structure of Mercerism.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Everywhere you turn, hierarchies are being challenged from below or are transforming themselves from top- down structures into more horizontal and collaborative ones. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly, he was invisible, without body, without structure, a ghost passing transparently through the hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They create the appearance of racial equity without the reality and do so at no great cost, without fundamentally altering any of the structures that create racial inequality in the first place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He clearly was not in sympathy with the internal squabbling at King’s—especially when it might allow Linus, of all people, to get the thrill of discovering the structure of still another important molecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She moved the baby from one breast to the other, because the moment was so structured that she had to do so. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Such telescopes may reveal the internal structure and nature of quasars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls of the structure had been thrown together so quickly that they weren’t completely sealed. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And every structure seemed to fit into the one beside it like a puzzle piece; the only spaces must have been deliberately left open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Their migration was a response to an economic and social structure not of their making. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Oh? You don’t attach any importance to cell structure?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z White did not realize it at the time, but the Tribune Building and all other fireproof structures had another fatal flaw. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The most famous of the microscopical discoveries reported by Hooke in his masterpiece was the ‘cellular’ structure of slices of cork viewed under the microscope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Although the old structure remains, the piece has been substantially revised, in some places by severe cutting, in other places by the addition of new material. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When real death came it was an outrage, a denial of the immortality he deeply felt, and the one crack in his wall caused the whole structure to crash. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Further unraveling of its detailed structure needed a more professional attack than I could muster. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the first weeks of January 1953, that nightmare seemed to come true: Pauling and Robert Corey wrote a paper proposing a structure of DNA and sent a preliminary copy to Cambridge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That word seemed terribly important, a kind of safety word to cling to lest some structure collapse. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Numbers from strain gauges, measuring forces acting on various parts of the planes structure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their many societies had developed rigid social and economic class structures in which wealth and power were concentrated among monarchies, aristocracies, and the Catholic Church. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson had arranged for them to move into Cornell’s former house, a much more substantial structure on the east side of the river, right next door to the California house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She showed me how, in the country’s entire social, political and economic structure, the criminal, the law, and the politicians were actually inseparable partners. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen similar structures before, on the properties of his clients who kept dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I stand on the edge of the truck bed, holding the structure that supports the cloth cover. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The structures were clustered near the top of a small hill—another ancient mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From the outside, the structure looks like a gigantic snail, reflecting Wright’s interest in organic shapes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He would be the first person to propose something solidly correct about the structure of a biologically important macromolecule. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then she could see the smaller structures—dust and barb and cell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z One colleague of Pauling’s would later write, “If that were the structure of DNA, it would explode.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The new people are considered the lowest in the village structure. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were for the most part too long, or still connected to the root structure, which made them impossible to use. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the blank regions that characterize helical patterns, he jumped into action, quickly spilling out several possible helical TMV structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Showboat of 1927 was a turning point in this respect, demonstrating what a well-written, clearly structured musical with a thought-provoking plot could be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The structure around them gives off another tremor, and hot dust cascades everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When it reaches a structure that resembles a silo, it pushes a lever, and the top pops up. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I spoke to parents and ANC members and told them that every home, every shack, every community structure, must become a center of learning for our children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, to my great shock, they began to use their tools to pull the structure down. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The stories seem to be different stories, but the underlying structure is always the same, in any part of the world, at any time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in a week at most, Linus would have the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The limestone covering the floor was all that remained of the original stone temple, which the King of Adarlan had destroyed when he decided to replace it with the glass structure. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What had appeared to be a dozen structures from the street turned into one long hall inside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I guess all British people are experts on acting and accents and scene-work and dramatic structure, or something. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Most likely we had to know the correct DNA structure before the right models could be made. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If the whole structure were radically shrunk, the uninitiated might perceive a vaguely agricultural purpose; the cages might be thought to contain chickens, or mink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it my imagination or was the structure swaying? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps Franklin would consider studying the diffraction patterns of these fibers and deduce a structure? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If the complementary scheme was right, he might find attractive forces between bases with different structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The structure wound down into the opposite chair, then onto the floor, emptying at the base of a three-level cat tower, otherwise barricaded from Fig’s access. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Our store was a rickety, odd, huge wooden structure that looked like it was held together with toothpicks and glue. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve written short stories in my mind, chuckling at my own humor, saddened or stimulated by structure or content. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sturdy brick structures had been transformed into blackened skeletons whose insides continued to burn brightly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z To hire an architect would have meant revealing the true character of the structure that suddenly had lodged itself in his imagination. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We, in brilliant contrast, are completely organized structures, squirming with information at every covalent bond. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I draw them, delineating the structures with different colored pencils, though I can never get the same luminous brillance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘And over there -’ Frank pointed to a square foundation that looked like the patio for a Mexican restaurant - ‘is the Temple of Hera, one of the oldest structures here.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Though she still has a dissertation to write, still has an adviser to monitor her progress, she feels unmoored already, somehow beyond the world that has defined and structured and limited her for so long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The animals and plants on Earth and the structures of our buildings are all evolved or designed for 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I look over at the hospital— just in time to see the rest of the structure give way—and the fight goes out of me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Another popular antisuffrage argument stated that giving women the right to vote would threaten the family structure. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He staggered back a step, awed once again by the structure of his new home, then finally returned his attention to Alby, who had his back to the exit. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semidivine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There is only an efficient cause: the balance of weights; and a structure or form that makes the balance possible: a sealed tube up-ended in a bath of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The foil, similar to that used by NASA, trapped the heat inside the structure while preventing the camouflaged outside surface from overheating. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Not in learning Italian or Swahili or Mandarin, but in language itself, its shape and structure, the Lego blocks of sounds that snap together to make words and sentences. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A few tried to climb the frame of the structure and got electrocuted and fell, stunned and twitching uncontrollably. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Beyond these rudimentary details, nothing was known about the structure or function of DNA and RNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At twelve stories, it was one of the tallest buildings in the nation, certainly it towered over any structure in the south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As the search proceeded, it became more obvious that solving the mystery of nuclear structure required probes of higher energies than nature provides. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The place was a labyrinth of courtyards and walkways and illogical structures. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The words and structures lie waiting in memory, bearing little tags like “here’s a way to delay mentioning a modifier” or “my direct object is the thing being transferred.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Rahajamati. His article attacks Tanida’s theory of enzyme fusion—the concept of changing the chemical structure of the enzyme blocking the step in the metabolic pathway.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Let some civil rights “leader” make some statement, displeasing to the white public power structure, and the reporters, in an effort to whip him back into line, would try to use me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z For an Aristotelian, there is only one discipline that isolates efficient causes and structures and ignores all others, and that discipline is mechanics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This is the case of a man’s mistaking a whole race of men as a part of the natural structure of the universe and of his acting toward them accordingly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Twenty firemen led by Captain James Fitzpatrick entered the main structure and climbed to its roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’m saying it’s possible as an idea, even necessary as an idea, a final cause in the whole structure of causation.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play—with luck, the structure would be a helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Everyday life depends on the structure of the atom. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After the two weeks, we appeared for our preparatory examination on December 19 at the Drill Hall in Johannesburg, a military structure not normally used as a court of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The suburban structure of their lives had been upended. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Solid structures are set to vibrating by toothed bows in crustaceans and insects. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The downtown area alone had six thousand masonry structures: homes, temples, palaces, and granaries, even an eighteen-foot-high defensive wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the structures had been burned, except a simple straw hut that had been only half scorched away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z An overwhelming sense of relief flooded through his body, and he felt disjointed, like a bowl of overturned Jell-O—jiggly and without structure. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The church was a zinc structure with wooden pews. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire impossible structure took the form of a seraph. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z To decipher the structure of DNA, Wilkins had decided to corral a set of biophysical techniques invented in nearby Cambridge—crystallography and X-ray diffraction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Mutations in genes that specified macroscopic structures, such as limbs and wings, were the easiest to spot and the first to be characterized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly I realized the potentially profound implications of a DNA structure in which the adenine residue formed hydrogen bonds similar to those found in crystals of pure adenine. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z What kind of cultures, societies and political structures would have emerged in a world where several different human species coexisted? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They are fluid structures with 100 billion stellar components. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the glass structure stretched a vast misty jungle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Their goal was to investigate the structure of light by measuring the interval from the moment a quantum particle of light, a photon, strikes a target to the emission of an electron from its surface. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Built ten years ago, the arena is easily the largest structure in the Stilts. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z There was the further danger that if he put one of his assistants to taking DNA photographs, the B structure would also be discovered in Pasadena. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Using emerging high-tech techniques, researchers pieced together the physical structures, down to the cellular level, involved with attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I explain that verbs in Arabic form roots that create trees of nouns and word structures. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The inappropriate force of his anger and lack of ability to control or channel it reflect a primary weakness of personality structure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, the structure modeled by Watson and Crick was so tightly packed that it could not accommodate any significant number of water molecules. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Rumor had it that Pauling had now turned his attention from proteins to the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One on each side of the structure, for safety reasons. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The bright sunlight was suddenly gone, and she had to adjust her eyes to the gloom inside the structure. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Remarkably, the three R’s of gene physiology are acutely dependent on the molecular structure of DNA—on the Watson-Crick base pairing of the double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a huge building with a front office that connected to a large back structure two stories high. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z In jazz, the shift in emphasis meant bigger bands comprising more structured families of instruments playing well-honed, written-out arrangements, with occasional well-defined solos emerging from the texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This could be done with a structure known as a wormhole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The structure held, though Mark’s heart didn’t slow until he’d crossed it completely. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z If the new phrase has the same structure as the preceding one, its words can be slotted into the waiting tree, and the reader will absorb it effortlessly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The answer lies in the structure of the molecule. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Members of the school board said the city was growing so fast they had no choice but to take advantage of existing structures. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But he just couldn’t fathom how such a structure could have been built. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She had begun to glimpse the skeleton of an exquisite structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At one end ran the frame structure of the outdoor staircase. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The Dalcroze approach is based on eurhythmics, which teaches rhythm, structure, and musical expression through music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Just as the earlier-cited studies show that family structure has little impact on a child’s personality, it does not seem to affect his academic abilities either, at least in the early years. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Dari started sketching out new diagrams and structures—building off Twig’s wild ideas—and we made a plan to test the top two designs this weekend. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Taking this structure back down will be your last chore before leaving.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The October 1933 conference, which was devoted specifically to “the structure and properties of the atomic nucleus,” was the seventh in the series founded by the Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1911. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sunlight filtered through the slats of the wooden structure. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But the bone structure in a baby’s head is as chaotic as a busy road during peak hour. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter was horribly familiar with one part of the structure: the mesh cages, the silver blade above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But it took thousands of years to build such huge and effective political structures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Using my gloves, I began to manipulate these windows, navigating my way through the database’s file structure. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z No structure ever had been subjected to the unique stresses that would come to bear upon and within the wheel once in motion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And why if he had to fall back did he try to carry the whole structure with him? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, they uncovered more than ten monumental structures, the largest of them nearly 100 feet across. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One positive function Schoenberg’s twelve-tone formula fulfilled, though, other than provide for interesting analysis and debate, was to give composers in the twentieth century a challenging structure with which to grapple. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z To compose a passage with this orderly structure, a writer must organize the content she hopes to convey into a neat hierarchy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Traveling south through the Black Belt, the streetcars passed by quiet streets where the Respectables lived in sturdy brick and stone structures mixed with a healthy sprinkling of frame houses and a few apartment buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I tried to pick which shrubbery planted near the side of the structure might benefit from some alternative methods of watering. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Inside, the tent is dark-walled with an immense, iridescent white structure in the center. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But as he stared at the proposed structure, Watson knew instantly “that something was not right.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The whole place is singed, but you can still see the definitive structure of a school, except for straight down the center, which is entirely gone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The president's staff tried a similar approach that didn't require an outside structure. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He dashed over to a chemist friend in the neighboring lab to show him Pauling’s structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She would rather work on other codes—of nature, of crystals, of invisible structures. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On June 17 a small fire occurred in the Cold Storage Building, a castlelike structure at the southwest corner of the grounds built by Hercules Iron Works. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Coolly she pointed out that not a shred of evidence permitted Linus, or anyone else, to postulate a helical structure for DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z After two days of labor, workers and students were halfway through clearing off the top platform and the staircases leading to it; the layout of the structure was visible enough to map. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the center stood a clock tower, the tallest of the interior structures, rising to a height of 120 feet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Two doors down, I reached the new shul scheduled to open by summer’s end, a two-story structure of wood with a pitched roof, skeletal as though burnt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z PIH staff has begun to focus on methods of structuring aid and loans so that in the future the sick and indigent will be the primary beneficiaries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What is different, and new, about this movement is not its structure, orchestration or technical bravado, but its attitude. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then he came out and asked for the details of the beautiful new structure I had written Delbriick about. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After being dropped off at the Bar Harbor green, Molly walks over to the library, a brick structure on Mount Desert Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Should we be shocked when they turn to gangs for support when no viable family support structure exists? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There was only that thin, bone-like rib around either wing to give it structure. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole surface of the structure is smooth and sleek. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Let us pause for a moment and consider the structure of the atom as we know it now. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z During this period, the initial non-uniformities would have been amplified until they were big enough to explain the origin of the structures we observe around us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent the rest of the walk dissecting sentence structures and most of Spanish on a minute description of Mike’s facial expressions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The musical term for the secret guiding sequences in fourteenth-century composition is isorhythm, and the pieces that employed it are among the most complex musical structures ever attempted. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then twelve billion gallons of water molecules crowd for that initial escape vent, and they tear and chew at the structure until house-size chunks of it tumble down its disintegrating face. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Lynn wedges herself under one of the metal structures and climbs quickly, keeping the narrow girders beneath her as she works her way to the middle of the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The row of A-shape structures holding up this bridge—they don’t look good. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Out back there was a little courtyard with stone columns and an ancient-looking coral stage that was part of the building structure. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Our home was in bad shape, but the basic structure was still there. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Two of the captives who had been yoked together grew hysterical as they approached the looming structure and leaped without warning into the sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It was much lighter up there, because a white-painted flight of steps led up to the roof—or, rather, to a wood-and-glass structure like a little greenhouse. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But to a generation of writers after Wharton that structure—the lives and mores of the rich, the wellborn, and the climbers—proved endlessly diverting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He wrote more about Ayortha than I ever wished to know: how the guilds were structured; the number of gallons of milk produced in a year by one Ayorthaian cow; the construction of their manors. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the only bridge that spanned the entire river, one of the last remaining structures from Chattana's wondrous past. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Okay, look. The structure is a cylindrical biaxial braid, so it has excellent resilience.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Other things, like a forest ecosystem, or the structure of a government, are so complex that they have to be explored or studied before their structure can be understood. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Certainly, the white power structure in the South had resisted before what they had perceived as federal intrusion into regional life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The basic structure of the system remains intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They sped above the mossy broke-back structures of a dead city. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a green humped structure with a bobble head attached to one side by a stubby neck made of coiled spring. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z We were soon transferred to the Johannesburg Prison, popularly known as the Fort, a bleak, castle-like structure located on a hill in the heart of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Austin taught Fuller to take on the upper class in the black community with the same zeal and uncompromising spirit that he used in confronting the white power structure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They did, however, find monumental pillared structures decorated with spectacular engravings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Watson, and like Wilkins and Franklin, he was also instinctively drawn to the structure of a molecule capable of carrying hereditary information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And all along the rooftop of the structure stood twelve-foot-tall steel posts, a picket line of uppercase Ys, each of them strung with razor wire. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I pull up to the structure where the ball apparently lives—in a kind of barnlike shed—and knock on the door, my heart beating fast. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It’s likely that different bands had different structures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z To avoid monotony Dawkins inverts the structure of one of the lines in this couplet. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Why was this structure, of all structures, chosen as the central repository of all biological information? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A few years later, the white power structure called on Spaulding again, this time to halt a riot already in progress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The road curves off to the right and then we come upon a strange-looking structure that sort of looks like a cross between a tree house and a lighthouse. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z We might indeed expect to find several new layers of structure more basic than the quarks and electrons that we now regard as “elementary” particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure continued to topple until it hit the mountainside with a thunderous boom and rolled down the slope in pieces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Electrons determine the chemical properties of the atom—the glitter of gold, the cold feel of iron, the crystal structure of the carbon diamond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To solve the structure of DNA, Watson and Crick had to first figure out how many zippers were in each DNA molecule, what part was at the center, and which part at the periphery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead, she became increasingly annoyed with my recurring references to helical structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z For a moment, I drifted off into my head, but not with thoughts about something like cellular structure. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z But the least qualified people on Everest were not in fact guided clients at all; rather, they were members of traditionally structured, noncommercial expeditions. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “And if one were, accidentally, of course, not destroyed—and there happened to be a humanoid structure waiting for a brain.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z We’d tackled gun control, the meaning of intellectual property, the structure of American education, and the future of networked computing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The address that Patrolman Mancuso was looking for was the tiniest structure on the block, aside from the carports, a Lilliput of the eighties. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The two slightly shorter sides were taller frame structures—the machine shops and repair shops—and across the whole north end of the compound was the cotton mill itself—a gigantic six-story brick building. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Geology is the study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the solution to the structure of DNA could be achieved by the same “tricks” that Pauling had pulled? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We head for a structure crouching on the lip of the southern cliffs like a black toad. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Indeed, armed with microscopes, cell biologists had become accustomed to a cellular world in which visible structures performed identifiable functions within cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then I watched as planes sank into them, and I stared, bewildered, at the TV as the unimaginably tall structures swayed, then buckled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She has the bone structure to carry that kind of thing off, sharp cheekbones dappled with a sprinkling of freckles, a fine jaw. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a particularly elegant structure—but maybe that was asking too much. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Only in that way would it be possible to obtain a structure regular enough to give the crystalline diffraction patterns observed by Maurice and Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Although it’s of an iconic Dutch structure—a windmill—he paints just the bottom part; you can't see the sails in the wind. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Meeting House stood in the center of the clearing, a square unpainted wooden structure, topped by a small turret. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z That switch altered the folding of the hemoglobin chain: rather than twisting into its neatly articulated, clasplike structure, the mutant hemoglobin protein accumulated in stringlike clumps within red cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I resent the hell out of the politicians and the generals who force events on us that structure our lives, that dictate the memories well have when we’re old. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from the pumpkins and plants, the glass structure contained a generator to power the lights and the climate control. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He stayed for over a year, sleeping in the unfinished structure on a thin mat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He admitted that only one crystal structure bore on the problem. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We stopped by an old structure that was probably once a tower of some kind. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “As soon as I saw his body, I saw his structure, I knew exactly who it was.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Meaningful reforms can be achieved without such a movement, but unless the public consensus supporting the current system is completely overturned, the basic structure of the new caste system will remain intact. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It is absolutely necessary to their structure that there should be no contact with foreigners except, to a limited extent, with war prisoners and colored slaves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She’d never freed the full force of a hurricane, except from within the solid structures of her inland city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She learns teamwork and how to cope in highly structured settings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z These structures were mixed in among buildings that dated back to the American Revolution, most notably Paul Revere’s house, a dwelling that was already almost one hundred years old when Revere made it his home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After killing most of the Pequot defenders, the soldiers set fire to the structures and burned the remaining people there alive. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Chromatin—the biological structure where genes resided—was known to be made of two types of chemicals: proteins and nucleic acids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Huxley began with a well-reasoned argument about anatomical structure and how Charles had compiled his theory using such data as had never been used before. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For Charles to go against God and religion was to go against the established social structure. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. It’s just...Athena said that creating this braided structure would be impossible for any weaver, even her. So if you don’t think you can—” “Athena said that?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The temple, made of sandstone, was a massive pyramid-like structure in the shape of a chariot. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Beneath the surface, tall brick and steel buildings lurked, their crumbling structures hidden by the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth pointed to the disc-shaped structure about fifty yards off their port side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Moreover, it was not obvious that even the most backbreaking effort would give within several years the structure of the RNA component. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Taylor clapped in a cheerleader rhythm for attention and began to give the day’s structure. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Six weeks of listening to Francis had made me realize that the crux of the matter was whether Rosy’s new X-ray pictures would lend any support for a helical DNA structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z After the first few blasts failed to bring down the structures, Hildreth figured out precisely how much powder was needed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z End of the second week, I find Johnny alone in the yard, building a structure out of Lego pieces he must have found at Red Gate. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z At the climax of its monumental opening chorus, with two adult choirs and a double-sized orchestra already in full sway, Bach introduces a new, majestically slower tune on top of the entire structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was a short man like his mother, extraordinarily dark with a fine high-cheekbone structure to his face that gave his whole demeanor a darkly brooding nobility. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The “machine-gun fire” was the popping sound of hundreds of steel rivets as the structure blew apart. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They point out that “conventional strategies for social change proceed as though a change in who administers power fundamentally affects the structure of power itself.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Sisters of the Star lived in the Tower, a massive structure that unsettled the eye and confounded the mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The old wooden structure had been empty of mules since Mr. Carter had sold the company to the steel mill. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If he had not been with us in Cambridge, I might still have been pumping for a like-with-like structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It probably took much longer, an hour or more for the fires to completely gut the structures that lined the alley. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The discovery of atomic structure and the uncertainty principle put an emphatic end to that. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He should have gotten a PhD; universities are institutions structured, in large part, for people with his kind of deep intellectual interests and curiosity. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Then came the mechanism by which an organism determines where these structures are to be placed: front or back, left or right, above or below. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I waved at Ms. Faraci when I entered, but she was busy drawing chemical structures on the board and didn’t notice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As I said, some of the blame should be heaped on the overly centralized Inka command structure, a problem that has plagued armies throughout time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With one of the highest IQs in the study, one might have expected Hodel to discover the structure of DNA or something. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But inside the held house, a squat structure behind the main school building, there was only the delicious anticipation of starting anew. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Several other speakers were continental biologists, at that time guests at the Zoological Station, who only briefly alluded to macromolecular structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The latrine was a simple wooden structure only large enough for one person, with scarcely the room to sit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, it’s worth having a sense of the basic off-the- rack structure of a speech before you dive into bespoke couture. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The typical peasant developed a very strong attachment to this structure. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has always pressed it, and he always will. We always let him and we always will let him. The moment is structured that way.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But although Watson and Crick knew this rule, they had no idea how it might apply to the final structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Akimi turned around and whispered, “My dad designed the support structure for that thing. Check out the hinges.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z That, plus the structural weakness of the tank, had caused the structure to explode. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We tend to think of children’s songs as simple, and in some ways, they are in terms of lyrics, structure, and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Therefore, my size itself is a safeguard against my ever sinking too low within the structure of our civilization. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The cow barn is a simple open-sided structure where the cattle eat twenty-five pounds of hay and produce fifty pounds of manure each day. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Watson and Crick feared that they would wake up one morning, open the pages of an august scientific journal, and find the solved structure of DNA staring back at them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the village structure, spirits shimmered among the live creatures, balanced and held in equilibrium by time and land. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Somkit led Pong to a narrow structure that looked like a garden shed at the far end of the roof and swung open the door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In his spare time Bloom had organized the ushers, checkers, and refreshment sellers into a more efficient, cohesive structure that greatly increased the theater’s profits and his own salary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The whole gigantic structure seemed to rise toward Heaven itself, stone leaping into glory. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z There he would make an even greater mark on science by taking on the core question of atomic structure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The tree house was a small structure with one glass window. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z But unlike those ancient structures, the symbol at the apex of the central steeple was not a cross, but a two-pronged tuning fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The culture of possibility that Daisy Ford embraced and put to use so brilliantly on behalf of her daughters was passed on to her by the peculiarities of the West Indian social structure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Centuries later, Mendel had stumbled on the essential structure of that information, the alphabet of the code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I know they also enjoyed the normalcy of the way they structured their lives back home. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It makes pellets out of phonemes, implies that the deep structures of grammar are made of something like cement. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We assume that a large brain, the use of tools, superior learning abilities and complex social structures are huge advantages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But even as he moved his tools, trudging back and forth to store them in the primitive litde structure he had built between two trees, he found himself thinking again of the old woman. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Carrie steers the boat around the tip and I can see Cuddle- down there at the lowest point of the land, with its chubby, boxlike structure. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, like almost everyone else, she saw the appeal of the base pairs and accepted the fact that the structure was too pretty not to be true. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z By then the underlying structure of my face would be set and I’d have plenty of time to recover before school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Ironically, most structures put up immediately after the fire were little better than the ones that had burned down. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Ivy stared up at the structure, nestled among the gnarly branches of a giant oak near the back fence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When he was a boy it had been timber and wattle, but Robert Baratheon had razed that structure to the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The building of organs and structures, Lewis concluded, is encoded by master-regulatory “effector” genes that work like autonomous units or subroutines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The most important function of DNA—its capacity to transmit copies of information from cell to cell, and organism to organism—was buried in the structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every helical staircase I saw that weekend in Oxford made me more confident that other biological structures would also have helical symmetry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was a boxy structure with a row of large windows fanged with broken glass and a single cupola that probably contained a bell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “The remodeling was a true Ernest venture,” recalled his daughter Margaret, who turned ten that summer watching the builders tear off the front of the house and rebuild the structure room by room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was an intriguing discrimination case in California several years ago which had the same formal structure as this batting-average puzzle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The flimsy structure was still settling into the sand, causing the floor of each room to tilt at a different angle. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Apart from the Imperial Palace, the university, and the Ras Hotel, where we stayed, there were few structures that could compare with even the least impressive buildings of Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The palace was in the center of the city, towering over all other structures. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He believed Root possessed a genius for envisioning a structure quickly, in its entirety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While Einstein and Hubble were productively unraveling the large-scale structure of the cosmos, others were struggling to understand something closer to hand but in its way just as remote: the tiny and ever-mysterious atom. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Burnham and his firm went on to build scores of other structures, among them the Gimbel’s department store in New York, Filene’s in Boston, and the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Much of the upper body skeletal structure was the same. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It takes place before their Justice Building, a huge marble structure. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Samuel raised his head to look at the structure. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There are ancient ideas reverberating through this structure, very old hunches. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if the Maze was perched on a structure several miles above the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Any suggestion of participating in apartheid structures in any way was automatically met with angry opposition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ladders that rose from one level of scaffold to the next had all the substance of matchsticks and imparted to the structure an aura of fragility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Towers and monkey bars, the various structures connected by wooden bridges. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Yanna marched forward and pushed open the carved doors of the main structure. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The structure I’d blown groans, the sound echoing across the landscape, and I glance over my shoulder to see it toppling forward toward all of us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Similar upper body structure to an ape, but bigger than any primate Butler had ever seen. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The idea of using tinker-toy-like models to solve biological structures was clearly a last resort. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z What made an interpretation right was not its formal structure but its usefulness, the fact that it made possible prediction and control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While it was wonderfully satisfying to see a sturdy structure arise from the ashes, literally, what had lifted my spirits most was seeing all the Vida folks come out. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z His bone structure and eyes were strong, perfectly proportioned. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was a large stone structure, complete with Gothic arches over the entrances to the boat bays—a structure far more elegant than the clapboard homes most of them had come from. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, I could not refrain from adding a sentence saying that I had just devised a beautiful DNA structure which was completely different from Pauling’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The peculiar feature of the mutants, he discovered, was that the essential plan of macroscopic structures was often maintained—only the segment switched its position or identity in the body of the fly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And repetition in larger narrative structures—as witness the shape of everything from fairytales and myths to The Gruffalo—is what makes them seem coherent, memorable, self-achieved, and, in effect, meaningful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, and then the town proper in a line of ruined structures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Fans lay on, stood over, and clung to every support structure, making the track appear as if it were constructed entirely of spectators. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The darkness disguised the rising structures’ true form, but I could tell they were slotted and made of wood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At the heart of the exposition stood a tower of iron that rose one thousand feet into the sky, higher by far than any man-made structure on earth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the base of the structure, thrusters fire, throwing Pouncey, Link, and the others clear of the barn. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The vertical structure supports the high-gain antenna for direct communication of Viking 2 with Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Its vocal ranges were operatic, its naturalistic acting style more like that of a play, its structure of spoken plot-carrying scenes interspersed with verse-chorus- designed songs akin to those in musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “We have to get your friend down before the structure gives out. And then we have to get out of here.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In her eyes, we were a class of “bad kids,” though we had no guidance and no structure and had been sentenced to a grim, underlit room in the basement of the school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Steal stones from the structures that have collapsed to repair those still standing.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally, we had a structure big enough for the four of us to fit. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Surratt’s place was hard to spot at night—the plain two-story structure was unpainted, and the dull wood boards reflected no moonlight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Perutz was working on molecular structures, and it was the closest that Watson could get to Wilkins’s image, whose haunting, prophetic shadows he could not get out of his brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The sun was already setting beyond the San Francisco coast, so the cranes gleamed from the powerful lights that illuminated the structures. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When his mistake became known, Linus would not stop until he had captured the right structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I look at the Lightning power-up hovering in the middle of the giant hole in the structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1913, while puzzling over the structure of the atom, Bohr had an idea so exciting that he postponed his honeymoon to write what became a landmark paper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The light in the glass structure was blinding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On top of this earthen structure stood a deep, round, iron cauldron. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z What kind of structures did he envision, and in what style? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Most people around Charles believed that God had not only created all the species of animals at once, but that he had also created the social structure of their world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure wasn’t much bigger than Uncle Holt’s tool shed and was put together with about as much care. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I then appealed for an organizational structure that would include provisions for artistic work of all types, hoping in this way to eliminate constant quarrels over tactics and strategy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z About 3.8 billion years ago, on a planet called Earth, certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures called organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z His bare torso seemed hewn from steel, and though she knew it wasn’t possible, he seemed bigger, as if the very structure of his body had changed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The massive brown structure rose into the dusty sky and held the cross of Christ for all to see. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I whip out a stick of dynamite from my belt and slap it onto the side of the structure as I pass through. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What do I use masculine sentence structure or something? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z While this convoluted structure of race and class profited the black elite, it would be wrong to label Spaulding, Merrick, and the rest as corrupt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Out of the mist jutted a row of cavernous wooden structures that must be warehouses, and beyond that the dense, dripping green of fields and woods. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Might Mendel, then, have also stumbled on the essential structure of these instructions? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Most importantly, the power of fire was not limited by the form, structure or strength of the human body. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the structure of DNA was known, we might be in a better position to understand how genes work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As flames exploded outward, the massive steel and glass structures faltered and Zafoona closed her eyes and turned away. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The humming came from an odd structure on a hill. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our structures had been discovered and uprooted; those who were not captured were scrambling to stay one step ahead of the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This temple was a small structure, not higher in all than a man’s shoulder and made of grey bricks and roofed with tile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The fort itself was a tiny structure, actually— only about twenty yards square. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Their model of DNA was not just a pretty picture; the structure predicted the most important features of the function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In facial structure and skin color, Aborigines certainly look different from Europeans, leading some late-19th century authors to consider them a missing link between apes and humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that at least part of the explanation for this behavior can be found in the structure of the teenage brain. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Wilkins’s pet project at King’s was solving the three-dimensional structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In particular what he couldn’t find was a structure known as a caldera. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That’s why we move our eyes when we read: we can’t pick up much information about the shape, or the color, or the structure of words unless we focus our fovea directly on them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Thunderhead’s digital memory, Citra came to realize, was structured like a biological brain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The entire structure is oriented toward the exact point at which the sun rises on the day of the summer solstice. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But what if the structure of DNA was so simple—so elegant—that it could be deduced by “common sense,” by model building? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She complains to the other nurse that we patients don’t have enough structured time, and in the end, she gets the orderly with the scary tattoos to escort me away. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Though Vincent's forehead slopes more, “the shape of the nose & the structure of the head are identical.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It contained the same cluster of small dwellings along a single rough road with but one or two structures larger than the rest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Out of an original population, the members of which vary greatly in qualities of structure, behavior, or physiology, it is the “tough” insects that survive chemical attack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The way to form that community, said Vivian, was by working together to demand that the power structure change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Recordings also provide inspiration, and lay the groundwork for understanding music’s vocabulary and structure. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This poor record of achievement has led scholars to speculate that the internal structure of the brains of these Sapiens was probably different from ours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn't my unfortunate nasal structure that nearly turned me into a hermit the day I decided to build a home under my desk. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They’d stayed as close to the center of the building as possible, in the structure’s middle corridors, to protect themselves from the sun’s ruthless radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z If she were to perceive their true form, they would seem more like architecture than organism, like huge structures composed of intelligence and feeling. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z So anyone with depth of thought is almost automatically excluded from the main high school social structure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, the more we thought about DNA chemistry, the more unlikely seemed the possibility that even Linus could pick off the structure in total ignorance of the work at King’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z About 300,000 years after their appearance, matter and energy started to coalesce into complex structures, called atoms, which then combined into molecules. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alec greeted Mark and Trina with a grunt when they walked through the lopsided doorway in the Central Shack’s log structure. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The towering structure rose a good live stories tall, topped by a weather vane in the shape of a bull. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One would be MRI images that would show us the structure of his brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The foundations of die Great Pyramid of Meereen were massive and thick to support the weight of the huge structure overhead; even the interior walls were three times thicker than any castle’s curtain walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The old public library, the one Mr. Lemoncello had loved when he was a boy growing up in the small Ohio town, had been bulldozed to make way for a multilevel concrete parking structure. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z From these he quoted in part: “Does the whole structure cause an ‘iciness, a sickening of the heart, a dreariness of thought’? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The three-story brick structure had a white statue in the bell tower and looked like a suburban Catholic high school. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a cursory look at Levene’s proposed structure for DNA disqualified it as a carrier of genetic information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A new social consensus must be forged about race and the role of race in defining the basic structure of our society if we hope ever to abolish the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z More extensive evaluation would be necessary to make an exact psychiatric diagnosis, but his present personality structure is very nearly that of a paranoid schizophrenic reaction.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The one scientist they did revere, if begrudgingly, was Linus Pauling—the larger-than-life Caltech chemist who had recently announced that he had solved an important conundrum in the structure of proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Israel Israel could be an important part of the power structure during times of distress, the voters seemed to be saying, but he was not welcome there when things returned to normal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He felt the structure of the veins, the pulse of its misfortune, and felt the damp palm with a lifeline cut off at the base of the thumb by the claws of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the North, such a diversion from studies was unremarkable, but in the Jim Crow South, this was an act of revolution, an assault on the fundamental structure of Southern society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Behind them they had deposited a jumble of equipment: odd-shaped metal bars, pulleys, wooden structures that looked like ladders, other pieces of wood that resembled small logs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z As they approached the magnificent structure, Gregor noticed there was nothing carved on it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She would have walked right past and never guessed a swing set, toddler’s slide, and teepee play structure were hiding behind the wall of foliage. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a complicated structure, all doors and windows and pillars and wings added on over the years, and also far too bright. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Why shouldn’t the ANC participate in the new Bantu Authorities structures as a means of remaining in touch with the masses of people? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the forsaken city, every other structure, it seems, is burning or collapsing, but here in front of him is the inverse in miniature: the city remains, but the house he occupies is gone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But they get away with it by arranging the words so that a reader can absorb them a phrase at a time, each phrase conveying a chunk of conceptual structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Bathed in shadows, the traditional home structure resembled a sleeping monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Though this proved more difficult to fit together than the more open B structure, a satisfactory A model awaited me upon my return. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She led the guards to the other side of the stage, past the large wooden structures of the judge’s podium and the empty jury box. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As we entered Montclair, he drove through the worst section of town, and finally pulled up at an abandoned structure that even Dracula wouldn’t have felt at home in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z They cut apart birds to trace the structure of the avian skeleton, and, masked in leather hoods, they dissected a skunk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her resentment surfaced in the form of vitriolic attacks upon your corporate structure.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It may be impossible to overstate the significance of race in defining the basic structure of American society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “One’s efforts must begin at the very foundation of the social structure,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The chair Mom was in slid back and locked into place behind one wall of the wooden structure. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Moreover, the black cross of reflections which dominated the picture could arise only from a helical structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Wilkins’s talk on the structure of DNA was dry and academic. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When our world ends its structure will come apart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The structures along the river were now nought but torrents of fire, liquid and rushing; whatever features as remained—lintels, doorframes, and roof-trees—were sketched with dark charcoal smudges in the midst of red activity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The private area of the White House occupies about twenty thousand square feet on the top two stories of the main historical structure—the one you’d recognize from photos with its iconic white pillars. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although some semblance of the routinized mechanisms for political parties had begun to congeal during the debate over Jay's Treaty, nothing remotely resembling the organized campaign structure of modern political parties yet existed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Ebola virus particle contains only seven different proteins—seven distinct types of large molecules arranged in a long braided structure that is the stringy Ebola particle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A massive pyramid-shaped structure covering several square kilometers at its base, it towered above most of the structures adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He did not, however, share our belief that Pauling’s model-building game would quickly solve the structure, at least not until further X-ray results were obtained. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was all of golden silk, the largest and grandest structure in the camp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When they moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of Root’s design, they saw views of the lake and city that no one but construction workers had seen before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At Caltech, two physical chemists, Linus Pauling and Robert Corey, had used this technique to solve the structures of several protein fragments—a feat that would win Pauling the Nobel Prize in 1954. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To her right, the guiamala—now abandoned—trotted in nervous circles until it knocked down the tent’s central pole and the whole structure gave an ominous shudder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In a split second, I make a calculation of how this ice structure might topple if I mess with it right now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the loss of a routine that had given her life structure the past few months found tears pooling in the edges of her vision as she watched the city go by outside the window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z To solve the problem of repulsion, Crick had inserted a positively charged magnesium ion at the center of the helix—like a last-minute dab of molecular glue to hold the structure together. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The Ice Court is a vast structure,” Matthias said, turning away. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Scythe Faraday had told them enough about the power structure of the Scythedom for Rowan to know that much. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z From the ground floor, which in both buildings is known as the flats, you can look up and see how each structure is made up of two almost separate components. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Pasadena, meanwhile, Linus Pauling was also trying to solve the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They shuddered when they imagined the many ways the white power structure could punish them if they took a visible stand for equal rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The bridge is supported by four curved metal structures that secure it to the stone wall, and by a maze of narrow girders beneath its lower tier. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And if the applicant didn’t own any land, the city would rent ground on Michigan Avenue for temporary structures. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Its structure was the second great mystery vexing physicists in the twenties. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even here, Tycho’s mysticism was reflected in the layout of the buildings, itself intended to reflect the structure of the heavens. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Much of what they had left could still be used, but only if one knew how to read the wood, to decipher its inner structure. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Its open cell structure makes it light and buoyant, and in rowing lightness means speed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Marine models were essential in the early days of research on muscle structure and function, and research on muscle has become a major preoccupation at the MBL. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors looked at the elegance of life on Earth, at how appropriate the structures of organisms are to their functions, and saw evidence for a Great Designer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This isn't just a metal structure to hold up the lake's shores. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In .45 of a second an android equipped with such a brain structure could assume any one of fourteen basic reaction-postures. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z While I was away Francis had taken up the structure of the DNA molecule in the A form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z This was a reasonable view, since they were the only tools needed for Copernican astronomy and for Galileo’s two new sciences, the science of projectiles and the science of load-bearing structures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanism by which genes specify macroscopic anatomical features—limbs, organs, and structures—was the first to be deciphered. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was like a street tragedy with spontaneity tucked softly into the corners of a highly formal structure. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Most buildings had an informational plaque explaining the purpose of the structure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then other instruments, notably sax, trombone and trumpet, perform similarly athletic interludes atop the structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It’s probably the result of the way evolution has structured our brain. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There, at the base, was a squat, round structure, piled with layers of old blankets and tarps. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Indigenous languages differ from English or other European languages, both in their structure and in some of the sounds used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z There were fifty or sixty huge structures still standing, streets were dusty but paved, and you could see one or two old centrifugal fountains still pulsing wetly in the plazas. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He called Burnham a “colossal merchandiser” fixated on building the biggest, tallest, costliest structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We heard the bald man yell from within the structure. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He told me that my sense of language is improving along with my sentence structure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z But all of this intricate structuring was hidden. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I can see how it worked: The citrus packers walked from those lime green cement-block houses into that packing plant—that huge and magnificent structure. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a main structure, then a thirty-acre electrified enclosure where the adult bonobos lived, and the nursery, where the orphans spent their early years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Instead, he descended into the structure’s basement—cold, dank, poorly lighted—to inspect birth and death registers kept there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z People appear in ones and twos from structures shattered in other strikes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Thus it is a structure distinguished from the practical, everyday kind by its scale, order, permanence, or solemnity of purpose. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to admit the structure did look a little rough, with huge gaps in the walls and a tilt to one side, but at least it stayed standing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Walton County jail was a dull structure surrounded by a tangle of razor wire that ran along a chain-link fence and glistened in the sunlight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The structure, as Watson described it, “was too pretty not to be true.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is unsophisticated, employs no big forms and no big architectural structures, and it uses small sequence forms, ostinato and rondo. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The structure had a roof, an old hospital blanket that sealed in the idea of privacy if nothing else. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s Rhetoric was the first great systematic statement of how rhetoric works, and I draw on both its arguments and its structure throughout this book. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They feature different looks—nose shapes, hair and eye colors, facial structures, hair textures, body shapes, and skin tones—matched with fabric swatches and rouge-stick smudges and nail lacquer. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He darted behind the three-sided wooden structure that sheltered waiting passengers from the wind until he heard her wide rubber heels padding down the steps. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Eight hundred thousand paper links have turned the overstuffed structure into a rocket. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z We must imagine the morphogenesis of deep structures, built into our minds, for coding out, like proteins, the parts of speech. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sing Sing’s Mutual Welfare League had quickly become the domain of gangs and cliques, Lawes said—an officially sanctioned Darwinian power structure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Erudite girl prods at any weaknesses she sees, and so does Cara, and soon they are all shored up, like we have just built a secure structure. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As the decade wore on and they delved more deeply into the intricacies of atomic structure, their picture of the natural world grew only murkier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He runs his fingers through his hair, structuring it just so. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The mapmaker genes activate and silence genes that make organs and structures.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The small structure, the only home Kira had ever known, was gone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The quotation, commonly attributed to Nietzsche, that “there is no immaculate perception,” perfectly captures how cognitive schemas—thought structures—influence what we notice and how the things we notice get interpreted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It looks like a prehistoric polar bear, except as tall as a skyscraper—and its jaws are open wide, revealing a row of sharp teeth, each one as long as the nearest towering ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside the thin platinum-plated “skin” of the globe was a positronic brain, in whose delicately unstable structure were enforced calculated neuronic paths, which imbued each robot with what amounted to a pre-natal education. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z By shining X-rays at a crystal, a physicist can decipher its structure in three-dimensional space. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As I reach it, I slap a stick of dynamite to the top of the ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The metal structure is larger and stranger up close than it was from far away. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There was no reason to believe that he gave it one hundredth the importance of the structure of metals, for which he took great delight in making soap-bubble models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As it comes together, I add the outline of a building—a long, rectangular structure set on the sand. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Einstein’s general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the simplest of human tools—hammer, scythe, bellows, ladder, scissors—the function of the molecule can be entirely comprehended from its structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z What was it like building these first great structures? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even if Linus was somewhere near the right structure, the odds seemed against his getting near the secret of gene replication. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They could not fathom its material form, its physical or chemical structure, its location within the body or inside the cell, or even its mechanism of action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Three picnic shelters had been erected for the pleasure of the people of Noank, three open-sided structures with shingled roofs, tables, and in each shelter a stone fireplace for cooking. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do anything else when your lifestyle feeds you amply and supports a rich world of social structures, religious beliefs and political dynamics? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He sank to his knees as the last of his feathers fell and the wing structures sagged. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Gwenforte scares off the sheep as we approach, which leaves the structure vacant—but cold. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Ten meters tall or higher, the structure’s entire facade was engulfed in flames. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In that structure, Burnham said, “our originality began to show.... It was a wonder. Everybody went to see it, and the town was proud of it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I can probably force them to abandon manufacture of their Nexus-6 types; what I do during the next hour will affect the structure of their operation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z As we arrived at the new school building, a one-story glass-and-concrete structure with large picture windows, I tried to imagine what it would be like walking through these corridors as a patient. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In short, the chapter explains how the legal rules that structure the system guarantee discriminatory results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The most plausible hypothesis for the TMV structure was a central RNA core surrounded by a large number of identical small protein subunits. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His great bulk had been stretched upright upon a ladderlike structure, arms bound high over his head, unshod feet bound below just as tightly. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Usually he felt a stir of eagerness at this part of a chemical procedure—a thrill to create something no one else could, and alter the very structure of nature. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Now Stalin and the Communist Party nailed together a haphazard structure for a country that, in principle at least, treated men and women with equal rights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Why should he and the others interrupt their already full schedules to build temporary structures in a far-off city where they would have little control over the final product? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We must kill the structures all the way to their roots,” the angels had said, “and only then will Lucille be safe.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The bishop is a lay leader for the local ward, which is one of the small but critical parts of the highly organized and hierarchal Mormon structure. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z New structures had to be created for communication with unbanned Congress organizations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have walked right past and never guessed a swing set, toddler’s slide, and teepee play structure were hiding behind the wall of foliage. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The structure of their societies, the management of their industry, agriculture, commerce, the size of their settlements, the subjects of their stories, everything is shaped to fit the somer-kemmer cycle. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Our bug-out is a small A-frame structure—the mirrored side walls slope so that they reflect the higher reaches of trees, instead of reflecting people who might be approaching. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Giant stone slabs formed the remains of what must once have been a breathtaking structure. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The bustle of the North End was an arresting sight, and in the middle of it all, dwarfing almost every other building around it, stood an enormous structure that seemed completely out of place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z We may extract from them information about human anatomy, human technology, human diet, and perhaps even human social structure. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s around 2,600 square feet, and covered fully by hardscrabble brown dirt on one side, with nearly eight feet of land above the structure of the roof. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Harker, having collected a million dollars to solve the structure of the enzyme ribonuclease, was in search of talent, and the offer of six thousand for one year seemed to Odile wonderfully generous. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A long covered breezeway paralleled the main structure and connected the two wings. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists have theorized that Miranda's piecemeal structure is the result of a massive impact that broke the moon into several pieces that—held together by her gravity—were reformed into something entirely unique. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z That social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans in effect take over the dominance hierarchy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In structure and pigment content they are the images of prokaryotic blue-green algae. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of these new structures were illegal: and would subject the participants to arrest and imprisonment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He regularly forgets where he parked his BMW in the adjoining parking structure because he’s so busy thinking of other things when he gets out of the car and walks into work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Say what you like about southern social structure, but at least in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing both ways. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Its prongs settled around the grooves in the circular stone structure below. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The authorities were in the process of finishing an entirely separate maximum- security structure for political prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds drifted in and out among the temples and structures as if they were trying not to disturb the quiet peace of this place. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z His dad is older and balding, but he has the same sharp bone structure and perfectly symmetrical face that make Daniel so attractive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z My priority will be to get the structure intact and holding pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The revelation of the structure of DNA by Watson, Crick, Wilkins, and Franklin brought one journey of genes to its close, even as it threw open new directions of inquiry and discovery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was off the path Alec had scrawled on his makeshift map, but Mark spotted several wooden structures through the trees, big ones. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Measures like these added precision to the understanding of how long it takes the brain to react, findings that were very much in the spirit of Helmholtz and mental chronometry, the study of brain structures. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But there was no trace of resentment on his face, and in his subdued way he was thoroughly excited that the structure would prove of great benefit to biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It seemed almost unbelievable that the DNA structure was solved, that the answer was incredibly exciting, and that our names would be associated with the double helix as Pauling’s was with the alpha helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z No one else brought up the desirability of using molecular models to help solve the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He asked a partner in his inspection firm, W. F. Gronau, to calculate the novel forces that would play among the components of his structure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This left Cambridge, England, where I knew that someone named Max Perutz was interested in the structure of the large biological molecules, in particular, the protein hemoglobin. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was one of the strangest man-made structures I’d ever seen. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z So I could be sure that I had the correct structures when I drew tiny pictures of the bases on sheets of Cavendish notepaper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Each day, at her microscope, examining the embryonic salmon for flaws in their structure, Claire looked at the large dark spots that were their primitive, unformed eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One structure, rejected at first as a “monstrosity,” became the fair’s emblem, a machine so huge and terrifying that it instantly eclipsed the tower of Alexandre Eiffel that had so wounded America’s pride. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Whatever structures were holding it up give way in a sudden and catastrophic failure. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His Cloudspire, it would seem, was not the tallest structure in the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In discussing the large-scale structure of the Cosmos, astronomers are fond of saying that space is curved, or that there is no center to the Cosmos, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pardee, Jacob, and Monod published their monumental study on the lactose operon in 1959, six years after the Watson and Crick paper on the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The high concentration room, deep in the basement of the steel and concrete structure, was unscratched. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure for lifting, sorting, and dumping the coal was called the tipple. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A cargo ship is a huge and stable structure, a feat of engineering. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z New ways of stringing words and sentences together come into fashion and vanish again, but the underlying structure simply grows, enriches itself, expands. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing more for him but to efface himself, to destroy the unsuccessful structure of his life, to throw it away, mocked at by the gods. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The system of extended-family clans, of Hearths and Domains, though still vaguely discernible in the Commensal structure, was “nationalized” several hundred years ago in Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Watson knew immediately that the structure would not work: it was energetically unstable. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I wondered that the ground here could support such a large structure. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The only real certainty was the disruption that would be caused by long-distance travel and the myriad other difficulties inherent in building a complex structure far from home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Other structures loomed in the distance, and beyond it all lingered Lake Michigan’s vast liquid darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But, with luck, the addition of magnesium or possibly calcium ions to the sugar-phosphate backbone would quickly generate an elegant structure, the correctness of which would not be debatable. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The following morning, after I was told about the futility of the lunch, Francis tried to generate enthusiasm for our having a second go at the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It kind of blended more into my own fantasy style so that by the time the structure reached my city section, it was made up of everything straight out of my head and all dream-kissed. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The lunker pool was the smallest of the fish “bins,” a circular structure about fifteen feet across, in which from thirty to forty-five enormous trout usually swam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, there is simply no possibility of a real change in the Negro’s situation without the most radical and far-reaching changes in the American political and social structure. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z My room was upstairs in a wooden shanty structure that had never known paint. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, even before she learned of our proposal, the X-ray evidence had been forcing her more than she cared to admit toward a helical structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Matty slipped into a group that had gathered and was standing nearest to the platform, a simple wooden structure like a stage that was used for many occasions when the people came together. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Pressing in on the crowded, narrow streets were looming walls of close-built buildings, structures two, sometimes three, stories high, with slate, not thatch, roofs. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The Passacaglia structure involves a short sequence of four or eight chords repeated many times, which act as the springboard for a series of unfolding melodic explorations or improvisations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z So working out DNA’s chemical structure might be the essential step in learning how genes duplicated. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But unlike the church, which stood alone, this building was hemmed in close on either side by ordinary structures. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z In my humble opinion, the prescribed story structure, the limited length, and the other restrictions inherent to film cause the truth to be treated as a handicap. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z A wide river filled the foreground, crossed by a bridge covered with structures that looked like tiny cathedrals. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z With their loose sentence structure and the melodic give and take allowing a team approach to conversation I knew they were Guyanese. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Further still in the future, James Watson and Francis Crick would discover the structure of DNA at the Cavendish in 1953. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They built the structure of social life in the Salinas Valley. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Very little had survived the Ruin, but somehow the structure called the Council Edifice had remained standing and firm. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He walks backward, toward the mammoth metal structure at the other end of the lawn, and I follow him. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Black tar paper covered the small wooden structure. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Yet the meeting had an amazingly formal structure of its own, a structure that went as deep as the desire of men to live together. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a squat, two-story structure that was begging to be torn down. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z A few men knelt here and there in the vast structure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Wilkins proposed that they collaborate to solve the wet structure, she would have none of it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Of the two forms of DNA—the “dry” crystalline form and a “wet” form—the wet form seemed to have a less convoluted structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The narrow street opened out to a square, and against the gray wall of a building there was a high structure of timbers and a noosed rope hanging down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The bungee jacket used the same lifters as the hoverstruts that held the spindly structures up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Their labor and their taxes helped to build roads, temples, nobles’ houses, and other structures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Carlos was always trying to get away with something, or at least he used to be like that before enlisting, but Alex found that rules imposed a structure, and he preferred that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even better, the glass structure threw brilliant reflections into his eyes, and Will could see that for a moment he was almost blinded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Frivolously worrying whether bacteria had one, two, or three chromosomes would not help us win the DNA structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “By all accounts he appears to be someone who—unfortunately for him—does well in a structured environment,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To handle the increase in patients, the committee ordered that a new structure be built to accommodate them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The brick structure was all the way at the far west side of camp, cupped in one end of Thurmond’s long rectangle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He watched a dog and a horse and a man yawn and wrote that it “makes me feel how much all animals are built on one structure.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There, by the river, set low between the skysoaring spires of graceful city living, was a venerable structure of stone, impressive if not in height then in solidity. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z His building was on the gloomy side, the construction obviously below the standards of structures rising elsewhere on Sixty-third, but it was well located in a community that clearly was booming. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Inside everything is tinted blue from the tarp that covers the walls, insulating the structure against the cold. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Like most of his colleagues in Perutz’s lab, Crick focused his initial studies on the structures of proteins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To him, the building was gloomy and imposing, out of spirit with its surrounding structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were comparing furniture, tile work, the structure of a leaded glass window, the folds in a satin skirt. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “But he’s not going to live in a structured environment forever.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z That explained the big crack in the asphalt under me and why my skeletal structure felt...rearranged. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And there was no need to force Maurice to the conclusion that the structure was a helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Well, there is a windowlike structure near the ceiling, but it offers a view only of compacted dirt, such as one might normally see when looking up from the grave. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t get it, but she was talking about the symbolism and structure. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If DNA was truly the gene carrier, he reasoned, then its structure should illuminate the nature of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Although their homes are gone, they did construct one lasting structure—a church. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z But she gave only some cursory measurements, pointedly declined to specify any details about the structure, and then brought a witheringly dull academic seminar to its close. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Triads are the chords around which every harmonic, or chordal, journey is structured, in virtually all the Western music written between the early fifteenth century and our own time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Inside is a labyrinthine and subtle architecture that maintains its own structure, transforms molecules, stores energy and prepares for self-replication. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mother-in-law problem is abated because the new daughter has a privacy she never had and a place of her own in which to build the structure of a family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z These spies saw us as a threat not to the white power structure but to black interests, for whites would mistreat all blacks based on the conduct of a few agitators. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas picked it up, completely fascinated that the Maze was so structured, and studied it as Minho kept talking. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z About 70,000 years ago, organisms belonging to the species Homo sapiens started to form even more elaborate structures called cultures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But Haas argues that these peoples knew of the existence of hierarchical, structured societies with strong central leaders, and could pattern their societies after them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This new structure was a one- story rectangular stone fortress with a flat cement courtyard in the center, about one hundred feet by thirty feet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like chaos at first—buildings and homes and roadways and other unknown structures all jostling for this tiny parcel of forty-nine square miles. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The only areas of physical science into which quantum mechanics has not yet been properly incorporated are gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Wayne said, “I’ll see y’all in an hour,” and backed out, leaving us standing before one of the strangest structures I have ever seen. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My left arm shakes as I try to balance on top of the metal structure. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z None of them had ever seen such a structure in court before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The elements have not done the exposed structure any favors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin solve the three-dimensional structure of DNA, producing the iconic image of the double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The glass structure was set in the center, and the lead sloped slightly downward all around toward a gutter inside the parapet, with square drainage holes in the stone for rainwater. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Governments and corporations organize their Web sites around their bureaucratic structure rather than the kinds of information a user seeks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z For several years he had slept alone in the master bedroom, on the ground floor of the house—a two-story, fourteen- room frame-and-brick structure. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary longed to examine a skeleton and see how the structure worked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel pointed to the centre of the structure, where curved stones formed a sort of bull’s-eye. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Kids zipped and zoomed around the playground, bouncing from swings to slides to the rope-climbing structure. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When some of the grateful residents proposed building an addition to Valentine’s house for his books, Gloria suggested a separate structure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It consisted of no more than a few hundred people who lived in huts, which were beehive-shaped structures of mud walls, with a wooden pole in the center holding up a peaked, grass roof. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that I had an opportunity to admire the Fair’s layout, I realized that there was an intentional structure to the midway. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The machinery had still to be installed, and Whymper was negotiating the purchase of it, but the structure was completed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z This completely changed the structure of communities and created a peasant class, who were forced to work for the landed class and to fight in their wars. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The archaeological community initially found it difficult to credit these findings, but one test after another confirmed both the early date of the structures and the pre-agricultural society of their builders. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The imposing structure of the Cairo courthouse and the even more imposing customs house looked like enormous freshly baked cookies in the syrupy gold of the light at the end of the day. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Animals with loose skeletons rattle them, or, like rattlesnakes, get sounds from externally placed structures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They also held diametrically opposed views of how to organize and staff Livermore and how to structure the thermonuclear program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Aware that each perfectly structured topiary, every detail down to the stones that line the paths like pearls, must have been planned. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Orleans Parish courthouse is a massive structure with intimidating architecture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The house, a one-story brick structure, stood in a grove of cottonwoods on a little eminence over a pool made by a dammed-up spring. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The executive committee and its subordinate structures would have to be severely streamlined to adapt to illegal conditions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was plain and straightforward, a modern structure devoid of concealments. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Their players scatter left and right as the structure collapses in an explosion of cracking ice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I asked what the pattern was like, Maurice went into the adjacent room to pick up a print of the new form they called the “B” structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The very next day the determined crowd came back and finished burning down the remaining structures. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Death House, 15-Building, was an old brick structure down by the river. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I chase him into the scrap-metal structures, but he’s too quick for me, and this place is a maze—I lose him in seconds, and then I am alone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The structures were built practically on top of each other in this section of the settlement, and there was no room to cut through and escape into the surrounding woods of the mountains. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Since for many years he had worked at Cal Tech on the crystal structures of small organic molecules, I couldn’t kid myself that he did not grasp our problem. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Our family structures are larger and more inclusive; anyone who claims descent from a common ancestor is deemed part of the same family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their great beams adorned with splendidly worked gold and silver, the huge structures were jammed together around the center of town like people huddling in the shelter of an awning. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the tide surged back in, the waterlogged timbers on which the structure was built weighed it down and held it fast to the mud. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In the deep structure, the w/i-word appears in the position you’d expect for an ordinary sentence, in this case after the verb love, as in I love Lucy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I ran up to the half-buried structure, and after a quick search, found a hidden door that we’d walked right past, except now it shimmered like sunshine on water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the, firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The drug game had its own rules, its own structure. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The Tribune Building was one of the newer “fireproof” structures, one which, for many citizens, symbolized the wealth and energy of Chicago. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I could see the bones and veins; I could see the exact structure of her skull. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria—relieved to be away from the conventions of society and to reunite with her half brother Caspar—tried to embrace this structured, spiritual way of life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The roof above met in the shape of an upturned V, thus making the court a long triangular structure. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Built of white limestone and pink Aswan granite, the Pharos had a tripartite structure based on a vaguely Pythagorean geometric theme, with a square-sided base, octagonal middle, and circular upper stage. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She built a structure and attacked it, and if it showed the slightest shakiness she tore it down and started fresh. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers for designing any structures that might be needed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Just as foragers exhibited a wide array of religions and social structures, so, too, did they probably demonstrate a variety of violence rates. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the branch is bushy, or if one branch is packed inside another, a left-branching structure can give the reader a headache. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was another circular structure wrought in glowing white stone, but the treasury had no windows, no whimsical decoration or dragon’s scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead, he proposed that the structure would be held together by much weaker bonds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Up on the stage, a raised platform slid out, along with two large wooden structures. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z In addition to a granite-block exterior, the interior ceilings were of corrugated iron, resting upon wrought iron I beams, and every partition wall in the structure was of brick. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z From there, it’s just a short march to High Bridge, a stone-and-wood structure wide enough to handle an army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Archaeologists are familiar with such monumental structures from sites around the world—the best-known example is Stonehenge in Britain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They are repeatedly reminded that they must have some sort of structure to their nocturnal schedule, being the only children in a rather unconventional household. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The gene—the fundamental unit of heredity—must also be made of subunits, he reasoned, and the structure of DNA should illuminate these subunits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He gave Reggie structure and purpose, and a means to find personal success. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The man was credible enough—his company held the contract for inspecting all the steel used in the fair’s structures—but the thing he proposed to build just did not seem feasible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Why would a foraging society build such structures? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This six-story brick structure is one of those piles of slag that give Sing Sing its particular feel. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Andre was very keen about the role of divalent metals in phage multiplication and so was receptive to my belief that ions were decisively important for nucleic-acid structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The Group Headquarters building was an enormous, windy, antiquated structure built of powdery red stone and banging plumbing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Great Hall of Redwall would have fitted into a corner of this colossal structure. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The county jail was a windowless, antiquated structure that had served as an armory in the decade before the Civil War. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was an opulent structure that, for the moment, was the biggest private building in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The trouble was that about two-thirds of all these structures were made entirely of wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z We entered the prison yard near a corner of the main structure, beneath a guard tower that stuck out from the outer walls like a castle’s turret. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Not one person could be seen on the paths or in the alleys, but Mark kept catching glimpses of eyes peering out through windows and slats and cracks in the haphazard structures. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bill Harvey knew that for all the CIA's efforts, a big question hung over its attempts to look deep inside the Soviet power structure. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Fertile stuff, if it can somehow be irrigated, the loess blanketed the underlying structure like a heavy tarpaulin tossed over a piece of machinery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Parts of the structure were used as a vocational shop until the roof burned down in 1984, when the building was permanently closed—boarded up and fenced in though, inexplicably, not removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Under Arthur’s direction the ladder-like structures became a scaffolding—four small towers standing one near each corner of the block. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z What Reilly and his team at Cook County were trying to do, in short, was provide some structure for the spontaneity of the ER. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The position of the gap indicates the role that the modified phrase played in the deep structure; to understand the relative clause, we mentally fill it back in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A terrible grinding creaks up high, as though the whole structure might collapse at any moment. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, however, I knew that genes could crystallize; hence they must have a regular structure that could be solved in a straightforward fashion. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In search of food, I made myself enter one of the better structures, an empty cottage with half a roof. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The Englishman was sitting on a bench in a structure that smelled of animals, sweat, and dust; it was part warehouse, part corral. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell what was structure and what was not, because it was only lit from behind, and most of it was hidden in gloom. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the roofs and then the interiors of the surrounding structures were consumed by the flames, a scorching wind swept around the alley. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the realists is that they assume there is nothing peculiar about the method and structure of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But filling its spacious offices and laboratories with appropriately distinguished professors was not as easy as getting the structure built. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You’d first build a shanty on your plot, a makeshift structure of plywood and corrugated iron. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The structures in it are mostly hollow—the chateau, the cathedral, the market—but why bother to smash them all when one is missing, the very house he needs? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Workers had raised a structure that Kira could see was to be a shed; under its roof, long poles from which to hang the wet yarns and threads to dry were already in place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil pauses, pointing to a small stone structure in a little clearing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Instead, the speed with which we talked about possible types of DNA structures gathered intensity as the morning went by. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Europe was overwhelmingly Christian, and society structured itself around the belief that God’s rule over mankind was absolute, as was a king’s rule over his realm and a husband’s rule over his household. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The criticism now,” he wrote, “is that the structures are unnecessarily strong.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There’s a buff-colored neoclassical structure on the northwest corner of the intersection. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In these perfect forms, he believed he had recognized the invisible supporting structures for the spheres of the six planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She got up irritably and walked away, toward the swimming pool pavilion, an open structure supported by three fluted pillars. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She walked along the floor of the grove feeling much as if she were in a cathedral: there was the same stillness, the same sense of upwardness in the structures, the same awe within herself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Francis’ quick verbal tour through the structure and its implications lost none of its zest for having been given several times each day for the past week. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The white men belonging to the power structures in thousands of communities across America know that I’m right! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The tar-saturated wood burned like a torch, crackling wildly as the fire inched across the structure as if it were stalking another victim. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z And to what extent have the battles over affirmative action distracted us and diverted crucial resources and energy away from dismantling the structures of racial inequality? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He gave viewers a basic overview of cell structure and cancer using diagrams and a long wooden pointer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She crept out of the barn and around the side of the structure, seeking the stream that had led her here. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I move back so I’m standing behind one of the lean-tos, then put my gun around the edge of the structure and say, “Hey!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It’s the last school structure before empty fields, and it sits on a small rise of land unprotected from the afternoon winds. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z I was also encouraged by the very exciting rumor that Linus Pauling had partly solved the structure of proteins. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When we pull back the curtain and take a look at what our so-called colorblind society creates without affirmative action, we see a familiar social, political, and economic structure—the structure of racial caste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The musical forms, phrases, harmonies and the poetic structure reveal a great deal of material apart from the content of the lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The solution to the structure was bringing genuine happiness to Bragg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Five years later, archaeologists remained unsure of the answers to such basic questions as where the geoglyph builders lived—the structures show no sign of habitation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Somehow Tyson, who was so clumsy he knocked over lab equipment and broke playground structures on a regular basis, had caught two fiery metal balls speeding toward him at a zillion miles an hour. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He carried in so much wood and built such a high structure with it that his mother walked in fear of an avalanche of oak. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z That had set out with the semblance of structure and order, then bolted like a frightened horse into anarchy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z An American flag identified the post office, a frame structure next to a drugstore that served also as the Western Union office. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The gutted structure crouches like a wounded animal amid a labyrinth of crumbling dwellings. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As he recalled in My Early Life, “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence— which is a noble thing. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z It was a huge, modern structure, and the lower floor consisted of mostly windows. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z You are looking at the only cantilevered structure of its kind on earth. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z At nearly one thousand feet in height, the tower remained the tallest structure in the world and an insufferable reminder of the triumph of the Paris exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She watched the words separate inside the skull—baby lingered and flitted from the memory centers to the imaginative structures to the places where the brain enjoys playing with pleasing-sounding words. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z If a short piece includes repeated phrases, it may be classified by the structure of its phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Construction began in about 1000 a.d. on an earthen structure that would eventually cover fifteen acres and rise to a height of about a hundred feet, higher than anything around it for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was downright obvious to her that the only way to establish the DNA structure was by pure crystallographic approaches. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The unfortunate reality we must face is that racism manifests itself not only in individual attitudes and stereotypes, but also in the basic structure of society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Durham’s nervous black elites, loath to push the white power structure too far, were willing to expend considerable political capital over education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The ground was covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top of the structure hung lamps of handwrought gold, each with a lighted candle. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, he told her, he had studied the Starfleet’s command structure and believed that it mirrored that of the US Air Force, making Uhura—a black woman!—fourth in command of the ship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then, with Rosy at last out of his life, he would commence an all-out search for the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Put one foot in the wrong place, and the whole structure would collapse. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The head office was only about a quarter of a mile away and was a simple stone structure that resembled our own section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon shines on her structure, and I get down on my knees to try to figure out what she’s saying. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The cave opened into a low, wide room filled on both sides with tents and makeshift abodes of impressive structure: panel walls, blanket doorways. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The machine of the world is thus the stable structure of our universe: the heavens, the earth and the four elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Another structure was quickly assembled to store empty coffins and serve as a morgue. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She pictured a little building, but after crisscrossing the island a few times, she realized there was no such structure. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The building is a wonderful brick structure, over a hundred years old, and the bakery is still run by the descendants of George Leidenheimer, an immigrant from Germany. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In this chart, she laid bare part of its secret structure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z As a result of his sighting of the new star Brahe was convinced that, if the structure of the universe was to be understood, much more accurate measurements must be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Watson had decided that he was going to solve the structure of DNA—“the Rosetta stone for unraveling the true secret of life.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet, like many landmark structures in history, the Lighthouse towered as much in symbol as in physical height. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z For almost forty years Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of crystallography, had been watching X-ray diffraction methods solve structures of ever-increasing difficulty.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She describes how hundreds of people lived together in that single structure. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The structure crumbles, but she launches herself higher, flying through the smoke and fire. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Anatomists describe the nature of materials, structures, and body parts: they describe how things are. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Jud and Frank were building some enormous, ramshackle, modernistic structure out on Commons lawn, and the hammers and the power drills had started early in the morning. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Thus in the immediate postwar years he was especially keen about the possibility of solving the structures of proteins, the most complicated of all molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The charter was in fact a revolutionary document precisely because the changes it envisioned could not be achieved without radically altering the economic and political structure of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the blood and lymph had been drained out of him by an enormous debauch of work, leaving only a frail structure of nerves, bones, and skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z By far the biggest structure was a great church—a cathedral as I would learn—which soared upward with a multitude of towers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Andean textiles were woven with great precision—elite garments could have a thread count of five hundred per inch—and structured in elaborate layers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But if they did not exist, the structure of world society, and the process by which it maintains itself, would not be essentially different. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The virus had altered the structure of the cell almost beyond recognition. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After erecting the main structure of the Hab, they assembled the three airlocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I retained a slight hope that I might profit from the meeting on the structures of biological macromolecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When we got into the car, Kevin told Mama that the soldiers had been ordered to demolish the vegetable stalls because they were illegal structures. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "My God, yes!" a woman's voice responded, adding to the structure of his vision within me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And second, singing was becoming less constrained by the three- or four-part structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A structure had never emerged quite like this before with no explanation. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Each one landed at a spot geologists thought looked interesting, where the rock formations might contain new information about the structure of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Upward mobility was more difficult to achieve in the larger, more bureaucratic operation at Mother Langley, with a well-developed management structure. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In order to feed the people who built and used the monumental structures, particularly large quantities of food were required. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we might give equal prominence to biology, but they were writing before the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We have inherited this structure and the history it contains, and we need to take care of it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Presently they identified the leafy structure where the witch lived. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Its structure reflects all the stages through which it has passed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The word “chance” does not serve to account well for structures of such magnificence. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had chosen the books at random, but even a quick glance at them made it apparent that they were all structured along similar lines. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps more concerning, though, is the fact that inclusion of people of color in power structures, particularly at the top, can paralyze reform efforts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The bright yellow building with the green door was so different from the gray and brick structures I was accustomed to. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Neither the beauty of my sister nor my intense interest in the DNA structure had snared him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was lean and narrow-waisted, not muscular at all, but graceful and loose-limbed, with a slightly curved nose and nice bone structure. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the quality of resistance does not necessarily depend on physical structure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Family structure, too, differs increasingly along class lines. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Raizel believed that society as a whole was corrupt, and that true freedom and liberty would only be achieved once the power structure was dismantled completely and capitalism abolished. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Without the hydrogen atoms, the chains would immediately fly apart and the structure vanish. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was a large timbered structure, three stories high, the second and third levels leaning far over the alley upon which it faced. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Thus one does not need to have a theory of the structure and constitution of the sun and the planets in order to calculate their orbits. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A round turret rose from one comer of the structure. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These structures had also been reinforced with plywood, and debarked tree limbs buttressed every wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Besides, the black elite had always wrung concessions from the white power structure—slowly but surely—through back-channel meetings, arguing their case in a dignified, rational, and, above all, civil manner. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Seen this way, the structure resembles a spiral staircase with the base pairs forming the steps. helical symmetry, the locations of the atoms in one nucleotide would automatically generate the other positions. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Walls, roofs, domes, and arches could rise far higher, but by establishing this one point of commonality the architects ensured a fundamental harmony among the fair’s most imposing structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z THE district offices were located in a converted church structure, the main floor of which was occupied by a pawn shop, its window crammed with loot that gleamed dully in the darkened street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Name the component structures that comprise the hand.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Located fifty-five miles from the Ouachita site, Poverty Point had as a focus a structure resembling an amphitheater: six concentric, C-shaped ridges, each five feet tall, on a bluff facing the river. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then they move into the round grassy structures to give birth to their own young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This can keep the reader off balance, luring her into wrong guesses about a sentence’s structure. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Much of the talk about the three-dimensional structure of proteins and nucleic acids was hot air. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Moreover, this is what the rest of us are like in our inner selves, and we will all turn into Iks when the structure of our society comes all unhinged. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They capped the number at thirty a week later, and moved on to filling the next wooden structure along the camp’s perpetually soggy and trampled main trail. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Eight men in official patterned clothes moved about a litter, a structure with a wooden base and ceiling surrounded by beautiful hanging cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z And to begin the work of restructuring American schools—barely changed in generations despite the ongoing Information Revolution—and their frequently warped structures, procedures, and value systems. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Gunn drew up a new management structure and a precise set of goals and timetables aimed at cleaning the system line by line, train by train. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, if that had occurred Linus would have written two papers, the first describing his new theory, the second showing how it was used to solve the DNA structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Pretty amazing for a woven structure, right? Doctors use it for traction, and electrical contractors—” “Uh, but the answer?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I went another fifty feet down the alley and stepped into the wooden structure. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With military discipline, the students marched down the block to the Kress building, an Art Deco structure which was, coincidentally, one of the most beautiful commercial buildings in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I realized my family loved me very much and this world could be such a great place to live if you just realized the structure for coexisting with the other five billion inhabitants. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I see the way the structure looks on all sides, the crevices nearest it, and the way the terrain tilts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even a master architect would have had trouble designing such a structure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are customs, attitudes, myths and directions and changes that seem to be part of the structure of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Happily, now we knew that this was not true, and so we had lunch, telling each other that a structure this pretty just had to exist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the 1940s and 1950s, Avery, Watson, and Crick identified DNA as the gene molecule, and described its structure as a double helix—thereby bringing the anatomical conception of the gene to its natural culmination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It is the one thing that structures their days: the sound of the food being warmed in the microwave, three plates lowered from the cupboard, three glasses filled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This model explained quite well the structure of the simplest atom, hydrogen, which has only one electron orbiting around the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked out of the building and stood outside examining its structure. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Already, by luck, we have seen the assembly of particles of exchanged thought into today’s structures of art and science. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Just about the only business left standing in Churdan is the grain elevator, the tall structure where corn is stored before it is shipped elsewhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z You could change your name, age, sex, race, height, weight, voice, hair color, and bone structure. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This was the legacy of Sesame Street: If you paid careful attention to the structure and format of your material, you could dramatically enhance stickiness. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The physical structure of the molecule enables its chemical nature, the chemical nature enables its physiological function, and its physiology ultimately permits its biological activity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Another reason is that children’s songs are uniquely structured to make them easy to memorize while containing basic musical and cultural material; language and codes that we come to recognize in all of our songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In November, he announced that the National Security Management System, a secret structure set up under P. W. Botha to combat antiapartheid forces, would be dissolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This is what upsets her most to admit: that the affair causes her to feel strangely at peace, the complication of it calming her, structuring her day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The first stop was Nishuane, the elementary school, an imposing and forbidding structure of dark red brick. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows and doors were either part of the original structure or a perfect restoration. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I felt the warmth of blood rush to your cheek, the fine structure of your jaw, like a bird's light bones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They ended up near the back of the Homestead—that was what Chuck called the leaning structure of wood and windows—in a dark shadow between the building and the stone wall behind it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z As part of the university’s contribution, Sproul turned over to Lawrence a two-story wood structure on campus, just across a narrow alley from Gilbert Lewis’s chemistry building. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We walked past the rows of brick structures with corrugated iron roofs to a big grey building in the back of the compound. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z This happened at Naples when a small scientific meeting was held on the structures of the large molecules found in living cells. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He also described the structure of feathers, the nature of a butterfly’s wing and the compound eye of the fly, among many observations of the living world. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Smith also made a point of giving Seabiscuit a structured life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She gazed at the snowflake, considering its delicate structure. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Next, consider the structure of the critical sentence. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And no one seemed to share his conviction that the Wooded Island must remain free of all structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His name and work would become increasingly appreciated as neuroscientists delved beyond behavioral studies and looked at the physical structures of the brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It would diminish Hunt’s building and in so doing diminish Hunt and disrupt the harmony of the other structures on the Grand Court. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For several days he had been home with the flu and was in bed when he heard that Crick and I had thought up an ingenious DNA structure which might be important to biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The hospital ward had dissipated like smoke into that desolate stretch of earth, surrounded by shadowed structures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There are invariant and variable structures in speech that are common to all of us. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One is a flat branching structure, in which a series of mostly uncomplicated clauses are concatenated side by side with and or with commas. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Given this background, one could infer, if one did not know it already, the general structure of Oceanic society. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The structure of mass incarceration is described in some detail in chapter 2, with a focus on the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t believe that my particular body structure is easily adaptable to that type of device,” Ignatius observed, a gimlet eye fixed upon the rusting stool. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Physiologists concentrate, instead, on the mechanisms by which these structures and parts interact to enable the functions of living organisms; they concern themselves with how things work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z According to this view, any non-rotating star, however complicated its shape and internal structure, would end up after gravitational collapse as a perfectly spherical black hole, whose size would depend only on its mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He left Calamity to guard the books and the honey and raced outside, skidding to a stop right in front of the slanted structure. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The idea that a simple answer was preferable had no appeal to Pirie, who knew that viruses were too large to have well-defined structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I catch sight of a white-blue marble suspended in the center of a gaping hole in the first ice structure. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some roofs were fitted with new chimneys or water towers, while other structures had fallen into further ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z That he spent a good deal of time asserting his own vision of the exposition’s landscape is also beyond doubt, especially his belief that the Wooded Island should remain entirely free of conspicuous man-made structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But at the same time, I now want a different land of education, a more structured one, and know how much I need it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they have walked a few paces into the structure, Bailey can see why it is called a maze. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The barn was a small structure, with room enough for the two animals, some bales of hay, spare parts, and a pitchfork. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The Office/Camp Shop was the sturdiest of the structures we had passed so far, built in a more permanent style than the smaller log cabins with their dark green doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Through the abundant windows I see a strange vehicle—it’s shaped like a bird, with two wing structures and a pointed nose, but it has wheels, like a car. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z From the few job inquiries he’d made, he already sensed that jobs in those towers would be different, much more structured, formal, and confining. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the little chimps toys to play with and climbing structures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The place was palatial, with a large central structure topped with a golden dome, and walls of the native honey stone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was surprising, she thought, as she approached the structure, that she had never spent volunteer hours there as a schoolgirl. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Thirty-seven men were arranged standing or seated inside the eleven-foot-tall structure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Whites should prove their commitment to dismantling not only mass incarceration, but all of the structures of racial inequality that guarantee for whites the resilience of white privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In particular, only a few weeks’ work should be necessary to see whether the DNA structure was dependent upon the exact ions used to neutralize the negative phosphate groups. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At the top of the hill was a series of castle-like structures that made up the City College of New York’s Harlem campus. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z More to the point was that Linus Pauling was coming to London in May for a meeting organized by the Royal Society on the structure of proteins. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Somewhere between Bragg the theorist and Perutz the experimentalist was Francis, who occasionally did experiments but more often was immersed in the theories for solving protein structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She led me through the curtain into a small interior courtyard, the heart of that labyrinthine structure. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the ruins, the Cloud Knights dive down for the ruins, no doubt ready to lose themselves inside the maze of crumbled structures. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The largest recognizable structures in the universe had formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mess tent, a cavernous canvas structure, was furnished with an enormous stone table, a stereo system, a library, and solar- powered electric lights; an adjacent communications tent housed a satellite phone and fax. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Later, one day while walking, she continued past the House of the Old, turned down a path, and discovered a very small structure attached at the rear of the building. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She turned her attention to Glerk, analyzing the structure of the spell that had enrabbited him, undoing it bit by bit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He and Anna liked order, structure, tranquility, good behavior. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We walked on the dirt road over the bridge and back to the school’s barn, a dilapidated leak-prone structure that looked more like a long-abandoned log cabin than a barn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The room is lit by moonlight, so it is hard to distinguish plant from tree from man-made structure. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Have we unwittingly exaggerated the importance of individuals succeeding within pre-existing structures of power, and thereby undermined King’s call for a “complete restructuring” of our society? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The spire was a wood frame structure covered with sheets of lead and highly decorated with sculptures and ornaments. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z West Oakland High itself was a massive structure in the northern part of what was technically not West Oakland at all. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He tried to picture in his mind how the structure of it all worked. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z No animal in Joe’s herds, or in Milagro for that matter, except for the sheep, were ever allowed into any structure that resembled a shed or a bam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And the spy plane's structure had been designed for stealth, not strength. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a giant sausage link, but when Robin cut a long section from the wall, making a window into the valve, I could see a spiral structure inside, like a staircase. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z To the biochemist Phoebus Levene, one of Avery’s colleagues at Rockefeller University, the comically plain chemical composition of DNA—four bases strung along a chain—suggested an extremely “unsophisticated” structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If acoustically flawed, Peck knew, the building would be a failure no matter how imposing the finished structure proved to be. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even when the sentence structure gets more complicated, a reader can handle the tree, because its geometry is mostly right-branching. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Thus all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Garden plots were planted in random spots between the buildings, twenty or so one-story structures made from long planks of wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He gestured to the head of the alley and a narrow structure two stories high. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead we find there monumental stone structures of a different kind, called megalithic because they consist of huge blocks or boulders placed upon each other without mortar. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The impact would have knocked down every structure in the city and collapsed the underground waterways, damming the Uzumark that flows under our feet, and flooding the whole valley. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It inspired me to compose opening lines of the paper I would write about DNA, if I solved its structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She would create a story to try to integrate events, actions, and feelings into one structure — a process that is a critical part of a child’s mental development. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant was a big and barn-like structure, ten minutes up the road. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Proteins ultimately enabled structure and function—bringing genes to life. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z |
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