| 单词 | construction |
| 例句 | And Burnham had gained almost limitless power over the construction and operation of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As for Alvarez’s linear accelerator, Lawrence did not even submit an estimate—the device was too novel even to calculate a rough construction budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We have looked inside the construction dumpsters plenty. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He chewed on a tin can as we stared across the pond at the line of new cabins under construction. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Sergeant, I want you to send a patrol car by the construction site every hour.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The new highways spurred car sales, truck sales, and the construction of new suburban homes. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z He commissioned the construction of a fire boat, the Fire Queen, built specifically to negotiate the park’s shallow canals and to pass under its many low bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z During these years he engaged in a number of different steam-engine experiments, the high point of which was the construction of a steam-powered carriage which ran around the floor of his parlour. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Use the construction paper to create personal touches, like eyelashes, beauty marks, even a bow tie. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The construction of the island’s first fishing resort, at Protection Point, was delayed, Arthur wrote, because of the war. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When it rains in New York, everyone is happy that the building at 59th and Lex is under construction, when just the day before they said the scaffolding made their eyes sore. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The proposal included an offer to pay for the construction of a suitable house on the island out of the royal purse, plus an income. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Their rising income has paid for construction of vast megachurches in suburbs across the country. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In the days that followed August 13, construction workers toiled day and night to replace the barbed wire with a permanent wall. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In Jackson Park everyone became caught up in the accelerating pace of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Huddling at their exclusive clubs, the patriarchs steered construction of important institutions to serve their black brothers and sisters. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The audition was held in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, since the orchestra’s cultural center was still under construction. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The windows are high and thin and many-paned, and decorated with cutouts made of construction paper; right now there are snowflakes, for winter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Thirty years earlier, army bulldozers had scraped everything clean to start construction. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no radio in the trailer, and the only reading material was a construction industry journal with boring articles about hurricane-resistant roof sheathing and antitermite treatments for plywood. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The elephant thundered down the road and turned north, heading toward a big open field where some fortifications were under construction. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All she could think about was how in a few months the pregnancy would limit her ability to do construction work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Daldoum got a job at a construction supply company and saved enough for a car, a Mazda minivan that could accommodate his big family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Intelligent life on Earth first reveals itself through the geometric regularity of its constructions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the seventy-five years since the Dark Days—when 13 was said to have been obliterated in the war between the Capitol and the districts— almost all new construction has been beneath the earth’s surface. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The construction of the Berlin Wall might well have been a crushing defeat for Bill Harvey and his fellow spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She warned members of the commission that if they approved the variance to allow construction of the Bacon Street project, they were inviting trouble. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I spent some time in preliminary calculations about the construction and performance of atomic bombs,” he said, “and became increasingly excited about the prospects.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman who answers sounds like she’s in a construction zone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They have long hair, long skirts, jeans and overalls, earrings, caps like construction workers’, lavender shawls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The previous year, he had assumed command of construction of the Pentagon, then beleaguered by labor problems, material shortages, cost overruns, and miserable work conditions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rationale for its construction is the subject of yet another lengthy archaeological dispute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They are janitors and construction workers and garbage collectors; they make fabric and operate trains and drive buses. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A moderate interpretation of the Duhem-Quine thesis leads to a mixed constructivism, in which evidence and culture each have a part to play in the construction of scientific beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At least Frank Millet still seemed strong and healthy and full of the earthy good humor that had so enlivened the long nights during the fair’s construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The schools were all identical, because the same construction code was copied and pasted into a different location whenever a new school was needed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Each night, the construction crews emerged from the tunnel covered in mud and construction debris. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As part of the vanguard of European cyclotron construction, the university soon would rival the Cavendish as the hub of nuclear science in Britain. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here the master carpenter supervised the cutting of timber for the construction of scaffolding, workshops, and machines. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z He brought the construction kit of the Spanish galleon model, and worked at it in here. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He was out of town but you never knew when he’d finish a construction job and suddenly show up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And I hopped back onto the curb at the last second, avoiding the bus and the construction site. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The automobile industry, however, was not content simply to reap the benefits of government-subsidized road construction. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z On business trips, Jack was sometimes able to see Moniek, who moved to the United States in 1950, settled in New York State, and worked in the construction business. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z He watches her with equal attentiveness as they traverse the shelves of timepieces in varying stages of construction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z After the establishment of the marble quarry came the construction of a wharf and of several buildings that housed industrial and craft shops. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The really remarkable cases are those of prospective discovery, since they straightforwardly refute the claim that all discoveries are necessarily retrospective constructions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She got me some thick paper—white construction paper. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She hits the nail so good, she could be in construction. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The resolution to the paradox—that a bad thing, dying, implies a good thing, having lived—is explained with parallel constructions: never going to die... never going to be born. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As construction continued, Oppenheimer was often seen strolling the streets of his growing town in jeans and a Western shirt, his thumbs tucked into his belt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last night he arrested a suspect in the vandalism at the construction site.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would anyone think that this perfectly natural construction is ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Westley watched the construction with a good deal of interest and, logically enough, curiosity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Alexandriaville’s new public library had been under construction for five years. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z They had just begun construction on the house, but they had left a canoe onshore, and their sailboat at the dock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I used to work construction, and when I’d come home from work, I’d sit down and I would tutor him for three or four hours. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was awakened by whistling and shouting,” said Zvonko Springer, who worked on road construction. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Another was the use of so much wood in the construction of homes, offices, sidewalks, and roads. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Three years later a hotel they had designed in Kansas City collapsed during construction, injuring several men and killing one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The problem for Kepler was that circles, eccentrics and epicycles were geometrical constructions; there was no evidence that any such gearing existed in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It should be emphasized that this division into four classes is man-made; it is convenient for the construction of partial theories, but it may not correspond to anything deeper. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In March, with just half a year remaining until the dedication, he invoked the “czar” clause of his construction contracts. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The walls around us are cluttered with construction paper posters, marker-drawn announcements for spring sports tryouts, and Black History Month events. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z While construction crews began expanding roads and nailing together new buildings at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer turned to his next task: “a policy of absolutely unscrupulous recruiting of anyone we can lay hands on.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward they mixed the garbage into the mound, incorporating the celebration into the construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was proud of the entire boat, but he realized it was a rough, primitive construction. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Each worked for him throughout the period of construction and continued to associate with him after the building was completed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’s true he was often working for weeks at a time on construction projects in Quito. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also the construction of a landscape of sacred power, built in an atmosphere of ecstatic religious celebration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A long I beam stretched nearly the full length of the loft, and on it lay the framework of an eight-oared shell under construction. 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 a hard hat like construction workers wore. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z So he was summoned by the chapter to design and supervise the construction of the new cathedral, and to hire the master craftsmen who would work under him. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z On the other side of the river, tall modern buildings, with whole walls of windows, lifted up out above the squat brick constructions. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He had spent his whole life working one job to the next, working construction, clerking, getting by, but what he really wanted to do was study. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A smaller limousine delivered the Coconut Cove mayor, Councilman Bruce Grandy, and the chamber of commerce president to the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like an architectural historian obsessed with only one building, Lewis had been studying the construction of fruit flies for nearly two decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They had transferred me to another Kommando, the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably some of the crew at the house used it. It’s pretty standard in home construction.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The guy was tied up on an iguana call, but his secretary promised he’d come to the construction site as soon as possible. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a quick sketch of the construction, all these tiny people up there crawling around the girders like ants on a big tree. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z This demonstrated the force of air pressure acting on the hemispheres and inspired Boyle’s construction of an air pump. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All the money Baba had spent, all those nights he’d sweated over the blueprints, all the visits to the construction site to make sure every brick, every beam, and every block was laid just right... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the twenty years between 1687 and 1707 he worked towards the construction of a viable steam engine, but in the end he failed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ascending Everest is a long, tedious process, more like a mammoth construction project than climbing as I’d previously known it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z "So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He settled in with my dad to annotate maps with new information: construction sites, the burnt-out school... The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z After my dad had to quit construction work, he started a handyman business. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There probably isn’t that much construction paper in all of Colorado. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Moreover, the exposition had entered that precarious early phase common to every great construction project when unexpected obstacles suddenly emerge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The exposition’s union carpenters, aware of their great value in this final phase of construction, seized the moment and walked off the job, demanding a minimum union wage and other long-sought concessions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like the menu of constructions, the menu of verbs can give a writer several options on where to place a given, new, light, or heavy phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ten thousand construction workers also left the fair’s employ and returned to a world without jobs, already crowded with unemployed men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the drive there, Curly was distressed to remember that he’d left something else at the construction site: his gun! Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly five o’clock, and the construction site looked deserted. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the digging and construction was done by workers using shovels, buckets, and bare hands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was hung from the walls and lifted as construction progressed. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z “It is at work. The construction business is light-years behind the rest of society.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Claire retreated, seeking the safest, coolest place, and found herself back at the construction site. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The 3.2 million square feet of office space actually under construction in Midland was equivalent to the amount in San Antonio, Fort Worth, and Austin combined. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At a stage in the construction, twigs of a certain size are needed, and all the members forage obsessively for twigs of just this size. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham and Root would see to the construction of the buildings and manage the niggling details that typically haunted an architect’s life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Outside, I can see the construction guys knocking back Gatorade, but the rule is that no fluid or food item can touch a maid’s lips when she’s inside a house. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He works in construction and treats his wife like a queen and his kids like gods. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The wagon had reached the part of the city where new houses and businesses were under construction. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave Bloom a cable from the Exposition Company that empowered De Young to hire someone to select the concessions for the Midway Plaisance and guide their construction and promotion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “We’ve used every scrap of construction paper in the whole district. And there’s no money in the budget to purchase more.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The pamphlet added, “In the construction of this great wheel, every conceivable danger has been calculated and provided for.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even Zillah’s gauzy constructions appear to me to have a confidence and subtlety, an assurance, that my own paintings lack: in this context my pictures are too highly finished, too decorative, too merely pretty. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Without Shawn as foreman, Dad’s construction business dwindled. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Katz returned to Des Moines to a small apartment, a job in construction, and a life of devoted sobriety. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Some kids had actually found the editorial pages and were now hunting around the classroom, searching for scissors and tape and glue and construction paper. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z As our hypothetical modern visitors wandered through the hurly- burly of construction and deconstruction, they might have felt that despite the commotion something was missing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Send them that ship, guaranteed, and U. S. Robots can collect their two hundred thou plus construction costs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Although rural counties contain only 20 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of new prison construction occurs there. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The group marched to a rectangular clearing that had been roped off in the center of the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And Lawrence considered that necessary, in its turn, because he needed Livingston to complete the construction of the new accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful building with its three-bell tower and western construction. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Of course all of us here are pleased with the world-wide epidemic of cyclotron construction,” he assured William W. Buffum, general manager of the Chemical Foundation, one of his major patrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “His construction business. I could invest, become his partner.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The next four constructions allow a writer to shift a phrase rightward when it is too heavy or too newsworthy to be taking up space in the middle of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Yet the strong anthropic principle would claim that this whole vast construction exists simply for our sake. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Skilled construction workers and technicians were always brought in from outside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was twenty-five, I found a job cleaning construction sites in the suburbs of Raleigh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Burnham would have to build a railroad within the fairgrounds to transport steel, stone, and lumber to each construction site. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She also started construction on her royal tomb, following the Ptolemaic tradition. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The construction site actually was several blocks from where he’d spotted the kids. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove to construction sites and broadcast the menu of the day through a loudspeaker. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the construction and embellishment is up to him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mirian can no longer buy construction paper for her children’s projects at school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Periodically ritual feasts that included much smashing of pottery interrupted the hubbub of construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘Even if two activities are alike social constructions,’ he writes, ‘if you want to take the measure of either, it is the differences you must keep in mind.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Wes spent his earliest years in the Cherry Hill Apartments, a planned construction built after World War II to provide housing to returning black veterans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Little wonder: at the time of its construction, the Huaricanga temple was among the world’s biggest buildings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What Brunelleschi had discovered was not the vanishing-point or the distance-point construction; he had not engaged in elaborate measurements or sophisticated geometrical constructions, even if he had the competence to perform them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train- car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As construction of the buildings at last got under way, anticipation outside the park began to increase. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only the actual construction of a uranium separation plant was be held in abeyance without a further order from the White House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then, one day, while I was working on a construction job in midtown-Manhattan, I found myself at low point in my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Overall, however, he was pleased, especially with the process of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This would later be called the centric point, and it is the spot where the vanishing point is placed in a vanishing-point construction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “If he really wanted to know, he would go to all the construction sites in this country and do a head count,” Phillip said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Lindsey spent her summers with her father—he was working some construction thing near Roundup—and the school year with her mother and stepfather in Seattle. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Since its construction in 1911, the church had become a worship home and meeting place for most of the city’s black community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Up the creek, a couple private docks extended out into the water, then there was a long strip of riprap near a construction site. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He wondered if the Builders had used openings like this one during the construction of the city to. get more easily from one place to another. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Recognizing that the architects’ delays had put everything behind schedule, he inserted into the construction contracts clauses that made him a “czar,” as the Chicago Tribune put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The album was a collection of construction photographs taken by Charles Dudley Arnold, a photographer from Buffalo, New York, whom Burnham had hired as the fair’s official photographer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Against the view that such great construction projects were unlikely, Kepler offered as counter-examples the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China, which can, in fact, be seen today from Earth orbit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She complained there was no “cafe au lait”-colored construction paper for her skin, or “sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate” color for her eyes. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Płaszów was frequently chaotic as construction continued and new prisoners arrived daily. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He would now have to hobble around as an unskilled laborer on a construction crew. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And finally, a construction worker, rebuilding a ship in ways no one ever considered before this. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I nibble on a carrot stick as Emily talks about how her dad owns his own construction business and Soojin shares her parents’ challenges running their deli. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Perspective painting generally involves a peculiar form of abstraction: the construction of a vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At school we make Easter eggs out of construction paper, pink and purple and blue, and stick them onto the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He studied construction and graduated in November 2008 with his high school diploma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The golden ratio was favored by artists and nature alike and seemed to prove the Pythagorean assertion that music, beauty, architecture, nature, and the very construction of the cosmos were all intertwined and inseparable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Each child in the class wore a round circle of blue construction paper on which was written in magic marker: Gr. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the war, Groves calculated, its construction, engineering, and electricity would cost more than a half billion dollars, making it the single most expensive component of the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful construction, the intricate curves glowing silvery in the light. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her speech is unclipped and loose, full of attitude even when speaking to John in the formal constructions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The foundation hired architects and construction crews to complete the extensive renovations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It whips around full of white construction sand, the sand that covers the streets and the unsold lots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His uncle proceeded to install bookshelves on every inch of available open wall space in the room while Papa looked on in wonder at the blur of construction. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z His focus, indeed his obsession, was the interior architecture of his own remembrances, the construction of an Adams version of American history, a spacious room of his own within the American pantheon. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Back in September, Mr. Ward covered two of the classroom walls with black construction paper and then scattered paper frames up and down the walls, each one a different size and color. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Preparing the site would require heavy construction, grading, and converting cow paths into four-lane highways. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He mapped it out, bullied and cajoled clubs into producing volunteer crews, and personally superintended the construction of hundreds of miles of path. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Initially, he penciled out a construction budget of $500,000; by the end of the year, the budget for construction and ten years of operation looked more like $2 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And we use fitted when we speak of someone whose clothes are, shall we say, under construction: Alice was fittedfor a new dress. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The tannery stood, its bricks and cement had held it together despite the raging winds; but the workers’ huts, of more flimsy construction, had been demolished. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Its surface is lined with hot-pink construction paper, covered in blue and purple heart stickers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The stone construction of the prison helped blunt the extreme heat that had settled on the city and much of the country, but nothing could keep out the humidity for which Philadelphia was notorious. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Accomplished wordsmiths identify a need while writing, or spot a problem in a sentence while revising, and when all goes well the suitable word or construction pops into mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A few weeks after his return a construction project near Clovis unearthed more huge bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Normally, she would have been involved in these preparations, but they happened to coincide with her two-day writing bout and the beginnings of the front-of-house construction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I stuck a red ribbon on top and made a card out of folded construction paper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Officer David Delinko had made a habit of driving past the construction site every morning on the way to the police station, and again every afternoon on his way. home. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Rose’s construction was almost four feet tall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Photographs transmitted by the spy satellite showed Soviet construction crews digging a twenty-three-mile-long trench near Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Officer David Delinko looked forward to getting up early to scout the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But for the very first time, we don’t see loops of construction paper. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z On the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been built, a roofed and durable construction. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps this latter finding should not have been so surprising: after all, Lawrence himself was still thoroughly preoccupied with his other work—namely, the construction of the 184-inch cyclotron on the hillside above the university. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At quarter past twelve, the door of the construction trailer swung open. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Darkness had fallen on the construction site and swab lows were swooping back and forth, chasing mosquitoes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His construction was geometric: he looked like two triangles, a small one and a larger one, balanced on two parallel lines. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In a grandiloquent, newsreel-style voice, the show’s narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis, began his report: “Today, at the eastern extremity of the state of Pennsylvania, a remarkable construction project is transforming the face of the countryside.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with crayon artwork on construction paper and school papers with gold star stickers and “Nice job!” written at the top. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But doing construction helped him stay in shape. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z One important achievement of C.P.’s term of office was the construction of a new Klavern hall just outside of town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It took Gey eight years to get through medical school because he kept dropping out to work construction and save for another year’s tuition. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I wasn't any good at construction, but I could drive the truck to pick up the crews and deliver supplies and work odd tasks in between. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Studies done years later using modern technology have confirmed that the Great Molasses Flood was caused by the outrageously shoddy construction of a tank required to hold 2.5 million gallons of heavy, sticky liquid. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The following evening we began construction under the watchful eye of Carlos and his two friends, who played all day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Marines had supervised its construction, forcing peasants to do the labor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Incredibly, the same engineers and chemists who explained the inner workings of the Alcoa plant to the saboteurs had supervised the construction of them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “For the construction crew,” Curly explained, “for when we get this project started. If we ever get started.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was to reach under the thick twiggy construction for a place to grasp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That is, political centralization arose for some other reason and then permitted construction of complex irrigation systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two months later, the commission appropriated $15 million for new accelerator construction, much of it destined for Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The tombwalk was a relic of the old palace cemetery, cut off from the rest of the grounds by the construction of the astronomers’ tower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The scale of their constructions and their agriculture infrastructure required sophisticated civic and social organization. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Had it been such a wise thing to go into the home construction business with his former son-in-law and end up with a loss of $1.2 million? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The mosque was truly an open construction, to God and to breeze. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There are darkened circles in the yellow fabric under her arms like she’s a construction worker. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Thanksgiving morning at the rehab center, unfortunately, was the same as every other day, except for the construction paper turkeys pasted all along the walls of the waiting room. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The links between richer and poorer sections went beyond the materials used for construction or the way buildings were crammed together. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z In the presentation speech, Professor K. M. G. Siegbahn of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised the cyclotron as “without comparison, the most extensive and complicated apparatus construction carried out so far.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had one of those yellow-and-black banners saying it was under construction. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It was a heavy, solid construction designed for stolid floating, not for navigating, though I suppose that if we had been thirty-two to row we could have made some headway. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Because of settling and erosion and downright slipshod construction, they tilted dangerously toward the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Race is different purely as a social construction, not as an inherent difference. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A venerable bank underwrote the construction of the new meeting hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The second sign was the construction begun on an old people’s home. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I had another job too, which paid me the best pay I ever had before I became a lawyer, which was working in construction. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I stepped off the sidewalk well before the construction and ran in the street, close to the curb to avoid an oncoming delivery van. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Monks Mound was the first and most grandiose of the construction projects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those households with residential permits qualifying them to be in Johannesburg were to be relocated in Soweto and pans of Tembisa, a black township under construction outside Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Shawn worked long days cleaning, cutting and welding the raw materials for the granaries, and once construction began he was usually onsite in Malad. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He went back to Bozeman and worked in construction and as a forest services firefighter for a year and a half. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The construction of his verse was often clumsy, possibly because strict deadlines meant he had to work so quickly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Starting with that one truck he had built himself a company that specialized in oil field construction—building roads and drill sites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction, but the work did not start until July 3, 1891, with less than sixteen months remaining until Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even if a bone looked just like a Neanderthal bone, it couldn’t be classified as one if it Ales Hrdlicka had been found in modern construction debris. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Grasso worked at construction sites, where he probably earned no more than thirty dollars a week. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z They bent their backs to unload heavy crates from ships and trains, or to carry pallets of bricks to and from construction job sites; their daughters scoured pots and boiled laundry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sure, she hadn’t found a link to Parker and the actual construction of the tennis courts at Vickers Park in 1985, but she couldn’t see any other solution. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His father, Anthony, had been living on his own since age fourteen, first as a coal miner and boxer, then as a construction worker. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Forget running a gate or being an escort or doing construction supervision or transportation or manning a wall tower—a good robot might almost do those. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance between buildings, I can see the bright yellow T shape of construction cranes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The man was Tom White, the owner of Boston’s largest commercial construction firm. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He draws fast—the pretty women, the tired construction worker, the happy new mom, and the homeless man. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He had not even taken the most basic of steps to test the construction: filling the tank with water to check for leaks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The patrolman hoped that Mr. Eberhardt’s son wasn’t involved in the continuing mischief at the pancake- house construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The launching of the War on Drugs and the initial construction of the new system required the expenditure of tremendous political initiative and resources. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The buildings that ringed the construction site might have had few windows, thus containing the baking heat of their fires to some extent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Archimedes wrote this, describing his construction methods, but all the copies were lost in ancient times. If I can translate this...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Why would kids single out this one construction site to vandalize?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Problem: The drills weren't designed for construction projects. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For the past two years, Kermit had been working in South America, where he was currently supervising the construction of bridges for the Anglo Brazilian Iron Company. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z His stubby legs were a study in unsound construction, with squarish, asymmetrical “baseball glove” knees that didn’t quite straighten all the way, leaving him in a permanent semicrouch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later, we’re on an abandoned construction site looking at a crumbling cement wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Even if we had the time and the ability, we’d run out of construction paper long before we got close. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z No single construction crew stayed on the job longer than six weeks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z With equal discretion, the committee assured Burnham and Root that ultimately they would direct the design and construction of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Byrd can blame a lot on made-up construction workers. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The cautious Weaver, adding an expansion factor for Ernest’s ambitions but still thinking too small, had privately recalculated the budget at $ 1 million for construction and another $500,000 for ten years of operation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Indeed, I shall argue that the new science would not have been possible without the construction of a new language with which to think, a language necessarily cobbled together out of available words and phrases. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In March, Watt issued a construction permit, and a few weeks later, bulldozers, cranes, and cement mixers swarmed the site. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z From the day construction began on the hospital, Selvam ceased to belong to us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She caught her breath, then stretched forward and pulled loose some dried seaweed that formed part of its construction. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s two blocks away—a tall gray building with big tanks of frozen oxygen out front and construction vehicles constantly adding new wings. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He told me he was a construction worker and tonight he was late getting home to his wife and infant son. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko fumbled for the microphone and recited the address of the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Art supplies sat in organized piles on tall shelves—paint, colored pencils, construction paper, glue, and a myriad of other things he didn’t recognize but couldn’t wait to inspect. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I stood on the sidewalk and let the perfumed breeze blow over me, free of construction dust and exhaust fumes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In the three decades since construction ended, much of the roadbed has been obliterated by washouts, brush, and beaver ponds, but the bus is still there. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes these projects acquired construction materials by cannibalizing old monuments, thereby hastening the process of creating ruins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the last few months, construction crews have been giving that abandoned house an Extreme Makeover: Bushwick Edition. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Cora appreciated the labor that had gone into its construction. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the fall, he’d invested a large sum of money in new construction equipment—an excavator, a man lift and a welding trailer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That first week, the second graders made red-and-green construction paper chains that they hung the length of the elementary and junior high school halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well... they develop it. They plan communities with nice houses, and schools, and industrial parks. They create jobs— construction jobs, teaching jobs, civil engineering jobs—like your father’s.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z These modes are easily performed on the xylophone and beautiful and interesting in their construction. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Still, he had only to make an appearance at Y-12 for all the issues of logistics and construction staging and equipment design that had piled up in his absence to evaporate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now the construction of Hugh’s X-ray camera was completed, and soon he hoped to get experimental evidence to settle the debatable points. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In July the agency voted to defer construction of the Mark II indefinitely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The basic framework for all these institutions and traditions was built in a sudden spasm of enforced inspiration and makeshift construction during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He worked odd jobs waiting tables and doing construction, but he’d eventually have another hemophilia attack and end up unemployed again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A Coconut Cove police cruiser had pulled up to investigate—Officer Delinko, the same cop who’d dozed off while “guarding” the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Andy traveled frequently and was currently in Hong Kong, working on a construction project. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Despite the fever and the raging infection, her stepbrother had beaten them to the pancake-house construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I quite disagree, respectfully, of course. I see many who act on instinct, which I believe is wrong. Through instinct we succumb to weakness and emotion. Careful thought and planning, mental construction, is always best.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The construction had come a little further along on this floor; half-finished plaster dividers rose up between the metal beams, and electrical wiring snaked alongside the ceiling pipes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The peculiar feature of his peep-show construction, that the viewer is looking at himself as well as at the painting, simply recapitulates this earlier tension. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Archaeologists already knew their dates of construction, usually from written records; the scientists wanted to compare their estimates to the known dates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Actually,” said Dr. Zinchenko, “Mr. Chiltington is the one in the construction business. Together, they were hoping to rewrite the history that didn’t fit their family myth.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The demand for labor is so great that every weekday roughly four hundred workers fly in from the mainland for construction, gardening, plumbing, and other services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By late spring, construction was well along on five Alpha racetracks, two Betas, and a host of outbuildings for chemical processing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Four immense two-story buildings were rising in various stages of construction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Instead he is making constructions, out of things he gathers from junk heaps or finds here and there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some historians and mathematicians argue that the Parthenon, the majestic Athenian temple, was built so that the golden ratio is visible in every aspect of its construction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From a distance, it looks like a major American city, with highrises and construction going on everywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Early on, Ogden ruled that what he termed “the factor of safety” in both the tank’s construction and its inspection had been almost nonexistent and those elements had caused the disaster. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This simple construction, called the complex plane, revealed a lot about the way numbers work. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Uncle Frank had an eco-friendly construction company in Spain and had built a ton of buildings in Madrid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The authorities in charge of protecting the burrowing owls would never block construction of the pancake house based on such fuzzy evidence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We should sue whoever was driving that construction truck,” I said, putting my seat belt on. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z And while he wasn’t thrilled about spending nights at the trailer, it was the only surefire way to stop the delinquents— or whoever was sabotaging the construction site—from jumping the fence and going wild. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Reluctantly he came to where she was sitting at the table, though she could see from his face that he was still listening to the noise of the construction below. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The site, exposed by the construction of a road, is an avian graveyard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or burned as firewood or for manufacturing plaster. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Supervising a construction job was a large responsibility, and every morning brought new obstacles and headaches. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I refer to the “double possessive”, which is evidently a perfecdy respectable grammatical construction, but simply jars with me, and perhaps always will. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Two devices were used to lift the stones and concrete to the roof for the construction of the vaults. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z The room is full of the sound of scissors slicing and pens gliding across construction paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Theres a new radio transmitter in Brandenburg called the Deutschlandsender 3 my brother says it is three hundred thirty-something meters tall the second-tallest man-made construction in the world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Outside the prison walls, just a few feet from the Hudson River, are three low, white buildings that contrast with the rest of Sing Sing in their newness and cheap construction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The family had moved from Puerto Rico to St. Croix in the Virgin Islands with the hope that my dad could start a small construction company and make big money. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Great fleets of interstellar transports would be under construction in Earth orbit—unmanned survey ships, liners for immigrants, immense trading ships to plow the seas of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had no official uniforms, but wore helmets of various kinds from army surplus stores, motorcycle shops and hard-hat construction sites, each bearing a small silver decal with “Sheriff’s posse” spelled out in black letters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He was very worried that the construction foreman would change his mind and chase after him. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest loss of life at the dam occurred soon after full-scale construction began. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The developers. The construction guys. What did they do?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was stark and unadorned in its construction in a way Cora had never seen before, as if to announce its efficiency in its very walls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In some vaguely general fashion, they understood this, regarding the construction of the District of Columbia on the Potomac as a statement of Virginia’s enduring influence over the federal government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My dad, who had a lifelong habit of switching jobs almost every year, took a position as a construction superintendent rebuilding a beachfront hotel and casino. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Several days later, expectant, I arrived at my first construction site. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every big construction project is supposed to do one. That’s the law.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also signs of construction—a barrel-shaped cement mixer and a dumpster filled with debris. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As the marchers came to the corner of Main and Roxboro, they passed a pile of bricks at a construction site. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z An active construction trains the reader’s gaze on someone who is doing something: See that lady with the shopping bag? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He’d love to see math and numbers the way I do—in everything from the stars to building construction to ripples on a lake. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He needed an engineer willing to go to Chicago and supervise the construction effort and thought he knew just the man: Luther V. Rice, assistant engineer of the Union Depot & Tunnel Company, St. Louis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Darryl was hauling huge rolls of construction paper to the decorations people in the art room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z After leaving the military, he went into the engineering and construction business in Colorado before branching into other industries, and eventually became a multimillionaire. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Closer to home I would notice the shirdess construction workers, the roofers, the sweating men tarring the street in front of the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she says, looking around at all the decorations that we’ve put up, “The hearts are really nice. It’s like the school vomited construction paper.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Universities that had shown their value during the war, such as Berkeley, stood at the head of the line for grants for faculty research and laboratory construction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z This was inevitable, for the separation process was so novel that no firm specifications could have been devised without continued experimentation by the Rad Lab, even after the start of construction of Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Seeking his fortune, Mr. Carter bought the land from its absentee owners and began construction of a mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Took you long enough,” said Curly, the construction foreman. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A large construction crane lifted the coaching launch from a flatcar and placed it gently in the Hudson. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then she explained that we would make construction paper flowers and write one of our many blessings on each one. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The original planning for the 184-inch cyclotron had called for the magnet’s construction to be completed by November, but that deadline had slipped with the arrival of war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t the same. No summer idyll like we used to have. They were doing construction on New Clairmont. Everyone was acting miserable and I kept looking for you but you never came.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s the schools. More and more construction, I guess. They’re going up like weeds. Espanola is the link into the North for supplies and industry.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z There is no distinctive subjunctive form in English; the construction just uses the unmarked form of the verb, such as live, come, and be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The system almost guaranteed imperial ambitions and exuberant construction plans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She does not reply but her eyes light up when he identifies himself as the person responsible for its construction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I walked past dark green Dumpsters filled with plasterboard and scrap metal, past blue portable toilets parked along the construction lots. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The cottage, being of small, mean construction, could not withstand their assault. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then they tossed construction paper and art supplies into the carrier and started making the rounds. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Strong would spend the war years overseeing one of the largest scientific construction sites in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It’s another note on blue-green construction paper, and it starts with a postscript. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Streamers of colored paper are taped to the walls, with arrows of construction paper at intervals, along the halls and up and down the stairs and into the different rooms, to show the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He considered the construction which was flimsy and the lot which might be valuable if a cannery ever wanted to expand. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Pharos had somehow been plucked off the North African shore and placed on Lake Michigan, it would have topped the Chicago skyline until the construction of the Wrigley Building in 1922. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was at Stanford, one day near the end of my senior year, that a friend told me about a summer construction job he knew was available. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We used a thick white paste to glue leaves and picture cutouts onto heavy construction paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Even so, prison construction in the United States seems to have developed an unstoppable momentum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks, and with them a sensitivity to how they mesh and how they clash. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z From somewhere in the fog came a deep thrumming noise, like the idling engine of a large construction vehicle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Many perfectly good English constructions were stigmatized because they had no counterparts in the language of Lucretius and Cicero. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The garage has only one window and that looks like it wasn't part of the original construction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I pictured New York like West Side Story plus In the Heights plus Avenue Q—but really, it’s just construction and traffic and iPhones and humidity. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, visits the construction site, 1982. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The driver simply told him he was transporting construction supplies for a job in El Paso. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Many issues raised at Lawrence’s briefings resulted from the decision to begin construction of Y-12 before the central technology was perfected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Then if you aren’t sick what favorable construction can you put upon your behavior? Any excuse for it?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Geometric constructions and shapes were the same thing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A small stage is under construction for bands, and the quilting contest winner will be announced at 6 p.m. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z For the rest of that year and into the next, the sixty-inch, despite its painstaking engineering and construction, exasperated its handlers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Backstage looks like a construction site, all beams and hidden walkways. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Jordie refers to Pamela’s designer yoga pants as leggings, and she storms out, ripping one of the chains under construction right down the middle. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And I had read reports of these officers choking mechanics, shooting construction workers, slamming suspects through the glass doors of shopping malls. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In March Burnham ordered Dion Geraldine, his chief construction superintendent, to press the matter “with the utmost vigor and see that no delay occurs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He vomited when he turned a corner and saw the construction site of the Capitol, emptying his guts from either a bad oyster or the hugeness of the thing stirring rebellion in his very being. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There’s always construction work going on for some new building. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The construction of a new cyclotron also was part of the deal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Burnham fought to boost the rate of construction, especially of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, which had to be completed by Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Rad Lab budget for 1946 and beyond climbed to more than $2 million a year—not including construction of the new machines. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z During construction the workers must eat, which in turn means that other people must provide their food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I organized the construction of a litter out of branches, and we bore the great warrior home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The stacks were so dense around the pile of crushed and charred trailers that it was too dangerous to try to clear them out with one of the old construction cranes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Soon the level of construction would increase even more, as entrepreneurs prepared to cash in on the expected crush of exposition visitors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The entire audience bowed respectfully toward the little crossed construction of wood. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So first he got everyone to make small palm trees out of green and brown construction paper and tape them onto the corners of each desk. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But it might also have seemed curiously incomplete, with half the city falling down and in need of repairs and the other half under construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The blue construction tarps on the Tower flapped angrily against its concrete shell. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was run by the mob, he said, which controlled all the construction projects in the city, so before he could get a decent job, he had to run organized crime out of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I have always lived with overflowing construction Dumpsters and portable toilets sitting on boards. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps Gaia’s forces had arranged some pretext to keep the tourists and construction workers away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z But the mound builders in Louisiana built these massive constructions at a time when agriculture was barely under way—it was like the whiff in the air from a faraway ocean. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She knew that construction work began early in the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me that he’d paid for the trip by working the night shift and doing construction jobs by day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Some of these folks have come a long way, like Mr. Daryl, who’s been clean for six years and works in construction now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The building, clean and white except for various edges painted green, was an open construction unfolding around an empty central room. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We were cleaning A. J. Diany, a construction office, and he was whistling and singing like a canary. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z For an instant, glue sticks, scissors, and construction paper are airborne, hanging like a cloud over the library. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A lot has happened with the paper chain since that truckload of construction paper arrived at school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The way the construction was going the church would not be built before another ten years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We make red bells out of construction paper, folding the paper in half before cutting out the shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence was once again making fresh footprints into a new world, an experience he had not enjoyed since the construction of the twenty- seven-inch cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many construction firms bid for the job, but in the end it was decided to give it to “someone from the community,” and that someone was Bart Skiotis. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They are working at a construction site, and Kyle is playing a character who is concerned about his immigration status. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The Levitt construction crews needed just one day to put up an entire house. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Deydey was proud of its snug construction, with thick logs fitted together as closely as possible. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A month ago he’d been an ordinary guy, a construction worker who did some extra work on the side at a friend’s T-shirt shop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dad wanted, more than anything else, to be a construction engineer, and his mother planned to have him enter Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He gazed across the valley, where construction crews were working in the Field of Mars, building fortifications for tonight’s games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z At first, Latimer said, Pitezel took care of the horses involved in the construction of Holmes’s building, but later he became his all-round assistant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Yet within the park fire was central to the construction process. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Our job was to dig out this tree, roots and everything, in front of a huge house that’s still under construction. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She borrowed some money from Trotter for “school supplies,” and bought a pack of heavy white construction paper and magic markers. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Shelves of construction paper and boxes of pencils and rulers jumped into focus. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Most of the models simply outlined walls, fences, and doors with loose stones, but some were elaborate constructions complete with plastic model cars, toy animals, and thatch roofs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She shuffled up to its base, again marveling at its construction. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He had acquired the concessions for other mines, was exporting fruit to foreign countries, had founded a construction firm, and Tres Marias, which had greatly expanded, was now the best hacienda in the area. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Weaver brought the blind request to Raymond Fosdick, disguised as a grant application “for expediting the construction of the giant cyclotron, and for the purchase of certain associated equipment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Only Calista had made a new title for it, with construction paper and markers, and taped it to the front. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled egg-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme, some aboriginal fishing groups of southeastern Australia devised elaborate technologies for managing fish populations, including the construction of canals, weirs, and standing traps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before Valentine’s Day we have to cut out hearts of red construction paper at school and decorate them with pieces of paper doily to stick on the tall thin windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In it we burn scrap pieces of wood left over from the construction. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A particular sequence of DNA—ACT-GAC-CAC-GTG—was therefore used to build an RNA chain, and the RNA chain was translated into a chain of amino acids, ultimately leading to the construction of a protein. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, other parts of the city were constantly enveloped in construction projects, which testified to the continued wealth and vitality of the state. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d just finished managing the construction of the Pentagon, the biggest office building in the world. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon returning to the construction site, Curly locked the gate behind him and high-stepped to the safety of the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It came as no surprise to the ferret to see a large siege tower under construction. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes! But it was not with the construction you are putting upon it. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Mud, sticks, leaves, and grass are our construction materials. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And through the great length and continuity of his dominion the memories and causes of innovations die out, because one change always leaves indentations for the construction of another. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Your grandpa Ted worked in construction, and they were going to build it together, right on this very spot.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z That is what they have in common with the passive constructions that also bog down these examples, like was affirmed and were used. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The irrationals occurred and reoccurred in all sorts of geometrical constructions. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was nearly midnight at the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The argument is simple: the language we use when thinking about scientific questions is almost entirely a construction of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were two beds pulled up to the ceiling through a clever construction of ropes and pulleys. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were always so many things to do and to remember in rocket design and construction that I had been forced to get organized in my mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the distance rose the frames of several three-story homes under construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The attempt to hold you in any degree responsible or censurable for the loss of life is an outrage,” wrote Dion Geraldine, his construction superintendent at the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Tell them that in México you owned a construction business.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “The one with all the construction permits?” he said. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Now it was like he wore an orange construction vest and carried those signaling flashlights they have at airports. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a blighted, hellish place full of noise and dust and smoke and inhuman towers that blocked the sun, and she hated it—hated especially this gloomy building and the ceaseless clamor of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Periodically the officers ambled across the street to watch construction of the new building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I heard Dad promise the commissioner that “every new construction site will be thoroughly inspected and regulated from now on.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Marsha and Glen had found construction work and roofing jobs at the start of the summer, but now it would be weeks before rebuilding jobs would be available. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Basic construction: A curse was on the kingdom. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Most unnerving is a line of new constructions—an official whipping post, several stockades, and a gallows—set up in the center of the square. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She rolled over the block of sugar maple, a castoff from someone’s construction project, and it became her perch whenever she had a spare moment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Six years would slide by during which little construction went on in the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the meticulous construction, Nichols was still moving, still trembling with life. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The joined cardboard feet hung down, pulling the paper legs in elastic folds, a construction of tissue, cardboard and glue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it’s construction TV, about building house decks.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z No English construction could have survived in the language for a millennium and a half unless it had continued to serve some purpose, and that includes passives and nominalizations. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Interlocking loops of multicolored construction paper—six million of them for the six million Jewish lives snuffed out during the Holocaust. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There were construction projects going on as people built barricades in the mud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “There’s a construction camp a piece up the hill,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a number of bathhouses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw wheels of ribbon and wrapping paper, stacks of colored construction paper, cardboard boxes of newspaper clippings, watercolors and cans of paint, a yellow stack of phone books. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of traffic on the highway because of all the construction. And it’s really pouring outside now....” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z She trapped herself, she marched into the labyrinth of her own construction, and was too young, too awestruck, too keen to please, to insist on making her own way back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Its construction had been overseen by an accountant, not an engineer, who did not know how to read a blueprint. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The owner of Boston’s largest commercial construction company, Tom White, for whom Zanmi Lasante’s tuberculosis hospital had been named, had befriended Farmer from the start and ultimately gave several million dollars to PIH. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In October 1948, as Frank was preparing to accompany physicist John Williams to Berkeley to discuss the construction of an accelerator at Minnesota, Lawrence abrupdy informed Williams that Frank would not be welcome. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The hotel brought a breakfast to our room that, much to my delight, featured deli meat among many other denials of American breakfast constructions. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Mir lasted longer than anyone thought it would, but it eventually began sinking in its orbit around the time that construction on the International Space Station began. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z At the other end, the Capitol was under construction, with scaffolding bracing the inside of its famous dome. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His goal was to obtain a new grant to finish the construction that had been halted by the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fluent writers have these constructions at their fingertips to simultaneously control the content of a sentence and the sequencing of its words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d ask Ali where Baba was, when he was coming home, though I knew full well he was at the construction site, overlooking this, supervising that. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He knew he had gotten me in trouble with Mom and so he quickly wrangled a construction job in West Virginia for a couple days of paid work. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “In one comer of the lot there’s a construction trailer. That’s where the cigarettes are stashed.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m only an amateur. It’s not my subject. I have never had anything to do with the actual construction of the language.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Finally, Polynesian material culture varied from the production of no more than personal utensils to the construction of monumental stone architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While the initial construction of those “fish farms” must have involved a lot of work, they then fed many people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First to emerge was a policeman whom Roy recognized as Officer Delinko; then the bald construction foreman with the rotten temper; then a snooty- looking guy with silver hair and dorky sunglasses. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They consulted dictionaries to look up correct information about word meanings and grammatical constructions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s quite far from completion. I need to send the finished plans to Friedrick so he can start construction on the clock. I suspect it will be much more impressive when built to scale.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The first order of business was erecting a chain-link fence around the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, she already has the nanny, a cooklike person, and a crew of men doing some sort of finishing touches on the construction to supervise. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If Dad stopped to explain the construction of a bridge, she would find the workman in his blue jeans, eating his lunch high on the top of the span. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The men unloaded trucks in the warehouses near the tracks or piled lumber in the lumberyards or pushed wheelbarrows for construction; the women cleaned out motel rooms along Highway 66. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z With the robot’s building expertise, and the small army of helpers, construction of the second lodge didn’t take long. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The A July 1863 photograph of the Capitol building under construction, southeast view. people of Washington, overcome by news of the war’s end, hope to glimpse their president on this historic night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And they maintained “the most relaxed building code in all of Florida for construction methods and materials.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I little relish the thought of more construction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Presents paved roads in China too; this was a type of construction he knew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His carvings and furniture and clever constructions were in high demand on the other side of the Road, as well. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I look closer—what I took to be closet shelves are just the front layer of a complex construction. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Though newly arrived Mexicans often work in industries that rely on cheap labor, like restaurants and construction, they rarely organize. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He devised a strategy that he believed would not only allay suspicions but also reduce the costs of construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The parking spaces in front of the place are all taken, but there’s a spot saved with orange construction cones and blue crepe paper. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z By 1280 the choir was ready for the construction of the vaulted ceiling and the foundation of the transept was begun. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z To obtain fuel and construction material and to grow food, they cleared trees and vegetation from the bluffs to the east and planted every inch of arable land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I own a construction company,” Mr. Heller continues, addressing Mama. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In fact, the presence of a crack house was not so stunning alongside what I had seen during a day on another plum job, construction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “All you’ve got to do is lock down the construction site for the next forty-eight hours. Think you can handle that?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Good writers may have no explicit awareness of how these constructions and verb types work, and they certainly don’t know their names. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The next week at school, Maestra Eva announces that some important visitors—foreigners—will be coming, and they’re considering making a big donation to fund the construction of a science lab at the school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the pile of construction paper, markers, and tape, we began sketching screenshots of how we imagined our app would look, on cardboard cutouts shaped like cell phones. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z One Mexican-American friend of my mother’s, who regarded it a special blessing that she had a measure of English blood, spoke disparagingly of her husband, a construction worker, for being so dark. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was talking about direct experimental data and involved theoretical constructions. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The last house in the subdivision was still under construction, but the shoeless boy dashed heedlessly through the lumber and loose nails. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nails were not used by the carpenters in the construction of the roof frame. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Five years ago, volunteer construction workers from Abnegation repaved some of the roads. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The building was a private venture: Burnham had nothing to do with its construction beyond approving its design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was an impressive feat, to get such a construction project completed so soon after the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Papi made maví, bark beer, and took two gallons with him to the construction sites where he worked, to sell by the cup to his friends and passersby. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z With architecture and construction such a fascination in Chicago, cornerstone ceremonies became extravagant affairs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t I wish. At this point, I’m getting black lung disease from inhaling too many construction paper molecules.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Listen to this,” Mr. Eberhardt said, and began reading aloud from the newspaper: ‘“A Coconut Cove police cruiser was vandalized early Monday morning while parked at a construction site on East Oriole Avenue. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, my parents had thought construction of their World Champions Centre would be farther along by the time our six-month lease with AIM was up in September. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Though Cootie could barely move his arms, he’d built the house on his own, teaching himself construction as he went along, hammering the plywood walls and plastering the inside. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The tennis ranch in Halfway House was called Barretts, after the construction company that was one of the major builders of tennis courts in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves set a punishing pace for construction, demanding that the first racetrack be running by July 1, 1943, and all five by the end of the year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It began at the feet, especially as the strangers were dressed in outlandish clothes like knights-in-armour, and it mastered the texture, the construction, the articulation and the probable price of their sabathons. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Taedong, as it flowed past Camp 14, was too wide and swift to freeze in the North Korean winter, which allowed dam construction to continue year round. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The battering ram continued, although as yet it had made no lasting impression upon the solid construction. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Because most new prison construction occurs in predominately white, rural areas, these communities benefit from inflated population totals at the expense of the urban, overwhelmingly minority communities from which people in prison frequently come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Still, the walkie-talkies were quality, the sort of thing used on construction sites. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Is it based on a misdiagnosis of a legitimate problem, such as declaring that a construction which is sometimes ambiguous is always ungrammatical? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Halfway through my construction, I realize what I’m building—a sanctuary. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The squad car was hot but, oddly, it looked darker outside now than when he’d first arrived—so dark, in fact, that he couldn’t see anything, not even the construction trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Three marchers wearing shiny steel helmets identified themselves as construction workers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z To house construction workers while the road was going in, Yutan purchased three junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 Caterpillar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This day spent in the construction of earthworks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He arrived at this after long observation of the construction of termite nests, which excepting perhaps a man-made city are the most formidable edifices in nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two- and three-story wood-frame houses bordered the park on all sides, identical in construction, distinguished by paint color and the type of furniture on their long porches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My dad fixed me up with the electrical subcontractor on his construction project, and right away I found myself wiring hotel rooms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z How long will it take for the construction to be done? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That day, he realized sadly, was probably further in the future than ever, thanks to the vandals at the pancake- house construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The art teachers signed on first, followed by the social studies teachers, so now paper links are under construction all day, not just before and after school and at lunch. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Bobby left the ballroom of the Empire Hotel, just steps away from the construction site of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts cultural complex. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The cover was blue construction paper, and the spine, instead of being bound, was stapled. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Since each of these changes was necessary for the construction of the new science we should be wary of trying to rank them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On Anya’s left, a huge space had been cleared out, obviously in preparation for construction of some kind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Annabeth had been in the middle of reading about the construction equipment used to build the Arch, but she looked over. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z This was the great nuptial gift from the U.S. to the Congo—financing the construction of the Inga-Shaba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all his accomplishments as president, Roosevelt believed that the construction of the Panama Canal was his greatest achievement. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Not the kind that you see at construction sites, or in school cafeterias whenever there was a spill. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Tycho had just completed the construction of another very large sextant, and whenever the clouds cleared in the nights that followed, he concentrated his attention on the new star. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He had spent the whole day hanging around construction sites in the city, looking for work. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The windows were covered in newspaper and the door with a smattering of work permits and construction bills. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z I learn, in a couple of hours of scattered exchanges, that Melissa was a waitress before this job, that her husband works in construction and her children are grown. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z First, you take construction paper and cut it into strips about two inches wide and eight or nine inches long. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Such a construction will need I do not know how many hundreds of rupees.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a pair of soft leather construction boots, tight jeans, and a black Led Zeppelin T-shirt, and was chewing gum and blowing bubbles. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The note is written on blue-green construction paper in perfectly straight print—not a hint of slant. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z They were connected to one another by ramshackle wooden bridges over which construction men, technicians, and scientists clambered nervously. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Irishman staked a claim, opened a brick factory on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, and made a fortune on the Northwest’s turn-of-the-century construction boom. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z That clump a bangs she cut off with her construction scissors is growing back sticking straight out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Similarly, funding that had once been used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It was a construction site. You stumbled over kegs of nails, over posts, over ladders.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Operation Gold began in the summer of 1954 with the construction of a drab-looking warehouse sitting just over the boundary separating East and West Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Daniel Hudson Burnham was one of the handsomest men I ever saw,” said Paul Starrett, later to lead construction of the Empire State Building; he joined Burnham & Root in 1888 as an all-purpose helper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He began to believe that his presence was indeed keeping intruders away from the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Eric and the boy I thought was named Ben gathered broken branches of driftwood from the drier piles against the forest edge, and soon had a teepee-shaped construction built atop the old cinders. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Bedrock lay 125 feet below grade, too deep for workers to reach with any degree of economy or safety using the construction methods available in the 1880s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z While the refinement and construction of the uranium plants were taking place, Glenn Seaborg ran his own race to perfect a plutonium extraction process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We pulled out all the gardening equipment that seemed useful for weeding and fence construction. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Adams had expressed his feisty and passionate objections to the Jeffersonian constructions in one last catharsis. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko’s sergeant said, “Captain, I ought to tell you that David volunteered for this surveillance duty at the construction site. And he went out early in the morning, on his own off-duty time.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The construction guys were supposed to be done weeks ago, but you know what they say about plans.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z My mom walked up to the construction worker and told him he had no right to park his vehicle there. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She decide to give herself a haircut with her construction paper scissors and you know how that turn out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The construction noises I heard over the phone earlier were actually due to construction, because the office is only halfway built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Papa was hopeless with larger-scale construction projects and big repairs, so Uncle Arthur usually did those things for him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Other times we ran into storms or into road construction and we were lucky if we made 200 miles. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all that can be known with certainty about this initial group is that it belonged to a diverse, four-thousand-year-old tradition characterized by the construction of large earthen mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only two months after Sputnik, the US Navy ordered the construction of the USS George Washington, the world's first nuclear-armed submarine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Gazzaley, though he is fighting for every dollar, has managed to oversee the construction of something sleek, more in his image. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Maybe the construction crew dumped a few leftover bags of concrete on their way out. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to start construction until I had all the materials, but if Mom wants to move us away, I might never have the chance to build. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham’s pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “In the meantime, my brother is starting his own construction business,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Yet the palaces unveiled in the Rookery were so immense, so detailed, that their construction was likely to consume nearly all the remaining time, leaving little for him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 A few black struts and chunks of construction protruded up through the waves. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Officers on construction detail—like the one who had witnessed me getting slugged in the head that day in A-block—accompanied outside tradesmen doing building or maintenance work inside the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One series stretched across an entire wall, photographs taken week by week of a nearby construction site. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z William Smith was a young supervisor of construction on the Somerset Coal Canal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He rolled out of bed, took a quick shower, toasted himself a bagel, and headed out for the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Like that of the Babylonians, the Pythagorean universe seems more a construction based on mysticism and aesthetics than the result of empirical study. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z As a carpenter, Southside wasn’t allowed to work for the larger construction firms that offered steady pay on long-term projects, given that he couldn’t join a labor union. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had become dizzy and fallen from the fence as they were hurrying to leave the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The palm was calloused and weathered, the nails thick and curved, a miraculous construction of leather and horn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She had been brought up around plenty of cursing, and knew every word and provocative construction, but since she’d become a mother, since she’d converted, she hadn’t sworn more than once or twice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In the distance construction lights illuminated the skeletons of cranes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 Willingness to hire people with criminal records is greatest in construction or manufacturing—industries that require little customer contact—and weakest in retail trade and other service sector businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Once he’d finished his monologue about his construction projects, he closed with an exuberant “I miss you so much! How arejyow?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But thus far they had been detected only in cosmic rays; the possibility of a laboratory demonstration of their existence might well justify construction of the cyclotron that could achieve it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pig iron production fell by half, and new rail construction shrank almost to nothing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What’s taken for granted in English, though, is spelled out in Chinese; there’s even a verb construction for this purpose. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The cortege passed in front of a construction site and the workers dropped their tools, removed their helmets, and, with bowed heads, formed a single line. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes asked Belknap if he would like to see the roof and the construction already under way. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z |
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