| 单词 | design |
| 例句 | The Hephaestus cabin had designed the bead this year. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z While they had dinner, Fuchs told Gold that the atomic bomb was being designed at a place called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of the building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He described for Olmsted a vision of a dream city designed by America’s greatest architects and covering an expanse at least one-third larger than the Paris fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If it is centrally organized, the system must be designed primarily for the elicitation of disbelief and the celebration of surprise. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He scanned the temple’s interior, thinking: If I were designing a secret passage, where would I put it? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Plate 15 shows his design for a ratchet winch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Dwarf feet are designed for spadework, not for the delicate intricacies of ballet dancing or balancing on wooden steps. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z As soon as summer comes around, her family whips out these loose cotton tunics in colorful designs that her grandma sends from abroad. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I told him, “Richard Buckminster Fuller was a scientist, philosopher, and inventor who is most famous for designing the geodesic dome, whose most famous version is the Buckyball. He died in 1983, I think.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A similar case occurred in 1939 when a group of engineers calling themselves the British Interplanetary Society designed a ship to take people to the Moon—using 1939 technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What is most striking about the design of the current caste system, though, is how closely it resembles its predecessor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Frightful watched his spectacular sky dance twice more, then she flew off the bridge and traced the same design in the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Almost all the furniture in his own house had been around as long as he could remember, and whatever patterns and designs it originally carried had long ago been worn away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The Lord flew effortlessly, twisting his body in curls and spirals the way a skilled dancer can take a twenty-foot ribbon and make it form graceful designs behind her. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And so animals have a full system of cautionary signals designed to avoid a showdown, and they are quick to back down when they feel they can. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The terrain seemed to be designed so that Percy could never let his guard down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “We learned about them during the orientation for new citizens. They’re designed to penetrate deep in the ground before they go off. Because there’s no point in bombing Thirteen on the surface anymore.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The designs of his hands shaped faster and faster. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He worked diligently and with growing excitement to design an exhibit that would show exactly what the Klan was about. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They did not seem to be individual men, but part of a huge, implacable, elemental design toward which hate was futile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not himself an artist, but On Divine Proportion discusses the golden section, the principles of architecture and the design of typefaces. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Besides, he has long desired a peek inside the Lefèvre town house, which is something of a legend amongst his colleagues who work in interior design. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But it was not designed to sustain a sudden impact from a loose three-hundred-kilogram mass. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next several days, Min sketched what seemed like hundreds of designs. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “You have a curious, designing mind, Mr. Rochester. I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Within two days the observation platform was designed and built and lifted into place. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On January 15, 1872, they staged a nighttime march to voice their anger over laws they felt were designed to penalize a single class, namely the poor. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Tall and beautifully proportioned, rising from its base to flare gracefully and then round to the mouth, a prunus vase was designed for one purpose—to display a single branch of flowering plum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But this second design, with its large white section, was thought too similar to the traditional all-white flag of truce. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If they’d added a square in this corner and one more paisley on the other two, the weight of the whole design would have worked better. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He stopped by a mighty anthill, with ridges running across the red mud as if they were deliberate designs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The machine is designed to use the weight of water to lift half a tank of water while the other half balances it by going downwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The designs for Orion, Daedalus and the Bussard Ramjet are probably farther from the actual interstellar spacecraft we will one day build than Leonardo’s models are from today’s supersonic transports. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was not Gods design; it was design brought about by the need for food. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe Roz was designed to think and learn and change; she had simply done those things better than anyone could have imagined. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “The factions, the video Edith Prior left us . . . all lies, designed to make us behave a particular way.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I lunged for a yellow coin lying on the blue design of the carpet, touching it and sending a surprised shriek to join those rising around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His mind fell away from thought and clung for safety to little plans, designs, machines. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But there was a Germany the boys could not see, a Germany that was hidden from them, either by design or by time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He was intercepted in his design by one of the young men who assisted with the procedure; they wrestled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The dining room is nice and bright and has wallpaper with fruit designs. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He carried around the blueprints for the Glass Castle wherever we went, and sometimes he’d pull them out and let us work on the design for our rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Though few civilians have seen anything like them, there is nothing architecturally innovative about the design. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the tape, she’s playing with a software program designed to teach algebra. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It looked eerily similar in design to the boys’ locker room at Burnt Mill Creek High School, except this one was just a little more battered and abused. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She loves the magical design of it all, the unfathomable architecture of the cosmos right down to the intricate masterpiece of the eye. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It has a different design on the cover, but it’s a book I’ve read from before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way she told her news stories was always designed to create a stir and get a reaction, and she was never disappointed. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z “Eat,” the woman said, holding out a bowl, her large fingers almost completely hiding the design of a painted monkey. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Fiercely, she scrubbed out her alpana design until no traces of the rice powder remained on the threshold. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The Nuremberg Rally of 1934 was itself an anthem to power and a carefully designed tool for further concentrating and advancing it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There are pieces of public life, of giving up one’s privacy to become a walking, talking symbol of a nation, that can seem specifically designed to strip away part of your identity. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was a metal stud on the belt he was wearing and he slammed the yo-yo against it, feeling it click into place, as it had been designed to. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z However Oriental the wrapper had originally been designed to look, it didn’t detract an iota from the single, impactful impression that Mrs. Glass, chez elle, made on a certain type of observer. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Wearing considerably more, Perry, one balmy evening in wartime 1945, found himself inside a Honolulu tattoo parlor having a snake-and-dagger design applied to his left forearm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Development of the institutions designed to make the city heir to Athenian intellectual greatness, the Museum and Great Library, was already well under way under the first Ptolemy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Claire’s office, by the looks of the blueprints, fabric samples, and design books. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Okay, I know it’s not a real hypothesis—by that, I mean something you can design an experiment to test. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Two others were in the haberdashery business, one had a graphic design studio, another made feather hats, and another worked in the finance department at Tishman Realty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Apartheid was designed to divide racial groups, and we showed that different groups could work together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In its place there now stood a massive chair, upholstered in red and with designs carved thickly into its legs and arms. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z At the lab Edward Teller showed him a design for a far more powerful atomic weapon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Chacko who christened the factory Paradise Pickles & Preserves and had labels designed and printed at Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s press. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It brought with it many ground rules designed to imprison and control everyone who was not white. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But the remark, I noticed, annoyed my mother, who sat tracing an invisible design with her finger on the tablecloth. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t going to re-dig the entire traditional spiral design again! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Leo could think of all kinds of fun things the statue might do if he had designed it, but the more he examined it, the more frustrated he got. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The second floor is graphic design and photography. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Seventh period, I take this video game—design class. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z The poor drill wasn't designed to operate constantly for so long. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Livingston had discovered electrical focusing by sheer ingenuity and serendipity; Lawrence recognized the underlying principle, which enabled him to incorporate it into subsequent designs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And none more so than Joe, to whom the whole thing seemed like another joke at his expense, designed to show him up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then they designed a similar membrane for air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the shower seemed to have been designed for someone approximately three feet, seven inches tall, so the cold water hit my lower rib cage—with all the force of a dripping faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z My sisters and my mother were busy managing orders and researching new design options for the next season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We spend the next forty-seven minutes designing our grand escape. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Huygens worked on the mathematics of the pendulum and the design of watches, but he also discovered the rings of Saturn. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was old and simple in design, a small, forgotten stone house with a metal gate for a door. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What kind of dipshit would design a house half shingled and half painted? Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Glad he stopped buying those kiddie books and started buying ones with more intricate complex designs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “We can design this to fit you, Melody,” Mrs. V tells me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z On the way here, in my copious free time, I designed a "workshop." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no more than a thin cover, designed to keep the light and dust off the glass that it covered. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Hull had designed it himself, with special features for his family. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not designed to have someone’s neck in it.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Closer to home, the tobacco industry—and so the Piedmont region—would benefit from a bill wending its way through Congress, legislation designed to keep tobacco support payments steady and high. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The answer is simple: an experiment is an artificial test designed to answer a question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Magnetic anchors,” mused Kether, wondering how he might appropriate the technology for his own engine designs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Charles’s American friend Asa Gray was one of those people who wanted to see God’s hand in the design of flowers, but he also thought that Charles’s argument for natural selection was right. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs, however, were brilliant and encouraged the engineers of future times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It lifts free of the model easily, as though designed to do so. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Tolkachev had high-level access to the latest designs of all Soviet fighter aircraft and radar systems. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Other boxes are specially designed for owls and for bats, so that these creatures may take over in the dark hours the work of insect hunting performed in daylight by the small birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Omakayas planned out a flower and began immediately, imitating Mama, to sew the beads into the design. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Every night he hiked up the hill to a place called Shack Town, where he had found a cheap room in a long, rickety shedlike building designed to house single men. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z His hands shaped the words in a swift series of designs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He did not see the task as a ticket to fame, so he designed what he called a “quickie experiment” involving a single neutron detector placed in a stairway outside the cyclotron room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I’d even seen a glimpse of her deepest desire, shown to her by the Sirens’ magic Annabeth had imagined her mother and father together, standing in front of a newly rebuilt Manhattan, designed by Annabeth. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Developers designed a 200-unit project to provide low-cost housing for families living in the path of the new crosstown expressway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I believe a famous architect had designed it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Eventually an experiment can be reliably mass-produced by manufacturing special equipment designed to obtain precisely that result—the equipment and the results are interdependent. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He said I’d been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who’d made sure I met all the requirements to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Originally, Archimedes had designed it to pluck enemy ships out of the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When she presented her design for her final class project, the professor didn’t think much of her concept and gave her a B. But Lin believed in her design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Other idiophones, though, like xylophones, are designed to ring at more particular frequencies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Tests were designed to let a moron pull at least a B. You’ll kill them. If you don’t come back to the Hollows. Are you? Coming back, I mean?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Congress’s rejection of funds to develop a supersonic transport in 1971, the world’s continued rejection of an efficiently designed typewriter keyboard, and Britain’s long reluctance to adopt electric lighting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They had decided to major in urban planning and hoped to eventually get a job designing or improving public transit systems. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This small house of Pascal’s, I realized, was identical in material and design to the house in which he lived. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then, as the doors rise higher, a barrel-like chest, each one different in design, with powerful arms hanging on either side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This island was designed to be off the charts, impossible to leave. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But those same folks were sure as certain that Miss Love had had designs on him ever since Miss Mattie Lou took sick, and was after him from the minute he became a widower. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently the machines were designed to process filtered seawater. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Finally, we ended up with six designs, which was pretty impressive, if you ask me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She was born in Virginia in the 1880s, after federal troops had been withdrawn and a reign of violence and terror had begun, designed to deny any political or social rights for African Americans. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit lived behind an electric stall door that Smith had designed and built himself. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I am beginning to suspect that nothing that happens is fortuitous, that it all corresponds to a fate laid down before my birth, and that Esteban Garcia is part of the design. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Others, though, argued that it was quite clear that general laws of the sort described by Descartes could never produce the perfect design that one could find in the paw of a dog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They worshipped figures in Staff God poses, lived in networks of vertical exchange, and had public architecture with designs based on templates from the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I have reason to think that Joe’s intellects were brightened by the encounter they had passed through, and that on our way to Pumblechook’s he invented a subtle and deep design. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one of the veterans I interviewed, David Oshiro, has never been to the Wall, paradoxically because the memorial’s design is so powerful. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He resolved that to preserve his credibility as supervising architect, a role in which he would be compelled to oversee the work of other exposition architects, he would not himself design any of the buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Brown and black splotches are scattered across the canvas in a haphazard design. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was simply a small pattern in the grand design of our lives. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too entranced by its design to fully pay attention to what Nali said next. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I have a big new sign made for the entrance and hire a design student to work on our windows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Long before America’s aircraft manufacturers placed one of their newly conceived flying machines into production, they sent a working prototype to the Langley laboratory so that the design could be tested and improved. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "The material in the jacket's designed to reflect body heat. Expect some cool nights," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z "It seemed designed to be as uncomfortable as possible, and it was," he recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Orff developed the concept of elemental music based on the synthesis of the arts of the Greek Muses, which combined tone, dance, poetry, image, design, and theatrical gesture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z His features, which would later settle into pleasant collaboration, were growing at different rates, giving him a curious face that seemed designed by committee. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z This was a long-tail boat, designed with the motor, orb, and rudder all attached to the same long pole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z "It's designed to get the ship back if we all die or something. They can take over Hermes from Mission Control." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hair is done in long braids, and one of them has fancy designs on her nails. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I once owned a book designed to provoke the imagination and help bored children discover constructive ways to pass the time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The United States had one flag design, the familiar Stars and Stripes, which changed only when additional stars were added to indicate that a new state had been accepted into the Union. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I also was trying to learn from the Americans I was meeting around the country, holding roundtables designed to focus on work-family balance, an issue in which I had a keen interest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On nights when Tom Bird felt separate from his life’s design, he shared stories of the Great Spirit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to prevent and control crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Up close to the front door I can see through the edges around the frosted glass design. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is this kind of sound that we most often associate with music, and that many musical instruments are designed to make. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiles and squeals, “Sara, this is amazing! Did you design this?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was designed by a manufacturer called Jackson. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was a perfect piece of designing and building. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon, and stars stitched all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There they can be fruitfully active in less risky work: illustration, typographic design, industrial design, and interior design, for example. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if he were somehow responsible for her beauty and stature, as if he'd personally designed her spots and trained her to grow to the size of a pony. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At the machine shop, Mr. Ferro presented us the finished product of our newest design, Auk XIV. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every speck of anything that might become a wedding memory, she tosses in there—stuff like jewelry designs and invitation ideas and flower arrangement choices and photos of gowns. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She came inside to eat, but most of her time was spent outside in the pen, slumped in the A-frame doghouse our father had designed and crafted from scrap pieces of redwood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And the major institutions with which they come into contact are designed to prevent their mobility. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z There were only some books in a pile, a small cooking stove, and the carpets, covered with mysterious designs. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The bolt was designed to withstand immense forces; if necessary to carry the entire weight of the payload. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ours was a small landing ship designed for troops, not one of the huge LSTs that carried in trucks and tanks. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But the broader problem, which we shall look at now, is the fact that our chemical attack is weakening the defenses inherent in the environment itself, defenses designed to keep the various species in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I told her that my dad did some kind of banking thing, and my mom was in design. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "Let's design and sew a privacy chamber for the locker room," she says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They absorbed the restrictions and made sketches and measurements, trying out different designs until they settled on the best specification. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Tally had never seen so much space painted in such putrid colors, as if the building were designed to make its occupants vaguely nauseated. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Judging from the layout, the second floor space had probably been designed as an in-law apartment meant for one or two people, but four of us found a way to fit inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Livingston took the opportunity of Ernest’s absence to make a subtle change in the vacuum chamber’s design on his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That was when the city hired Benjamin Latrobe to design and construct Philadelphia’s first waterworks. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The veterans continued to work at a furious pace to raise more funds and shepherd the project through the governmental agencies that still had to approve the design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Campbell was an ordinary-looking man, but he was extravagantly costumed in a uniform of his own design. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Canali in Italian means channels or grooves, but was promptly translated into English as canals, a word that implies intelligent design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The design of my left leg had changed, and the metal poles and clump of metal for a foot had been traded in for fiberglass. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She laid them out on a platter in a star design. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “But let’s focus less on these nicknames and more on our egg designs.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Ours was definitely one of the best designs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A few were large, but all had the same rectangular design with peaked roof. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said it was a marvelous design and wished he could meet the boy who built it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were stealing money and goods from the gas station, and they were operating in numbers that seemed designed to intimidate anyone, like Zeitoun, who might see them or try to impede them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Most of the houses seem fairly new and are variations of the same few designs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Tree-ear knew that potters sometimes attempted to paint designs on their work using colored slip. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His true luxuries were a fish pond and a garden, designed and built by himself, something he’d first done as a teenager. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The thing was sleek and simple in design and far too specific to occur by coincidence in two people’s dreams, no matter that they lay side by side, touching. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On the streets she dragged us to the counters of each and every jeweler, peering into glass cases, seeking our opinions of tiara designs and locket settings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Jobs worked on an assembly line to build computers and was so fascinated that he tried to design his own... Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the other side of me, a figure swaddled in a blanket slept soundly in a chair that looked like it had been designed by a torture expert. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Couldn’t stick with anything — jobs, people, cities. It was a flaw in his design. In the end, he couldn’t even stick with me.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Because there are all sorts of neat paper airplane designs in here,” said Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z One sunbeam fell directly onto the octagonal center design of a blue Oriental rug and the other lit up the red head of a very old lady. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Big eyes, a shrunken skull, with rainbow designs. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Historians will likely wonder how we could describe the new caste system as a system of crime control, when it is difficult to imagine a system better designed to create—rather than prevent—crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But this was, after all, Sayle’s private house and any security would have been designed to stop people coming in, not leaving. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There was a rumor that Seabiscuit’s lameness was a ruse designed to avoid a loss to War Admiral, and an awful lot of people believed it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of sofas were designed to look like Scrabble trays, with letter-square pillows. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Everything about this place is designed to break you down until you’re nothing but a number. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z That culture was peculiarly English for, as we have seen, Descartes studiously avoided appeals to design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Last Friend app is designed for lonely Deckers and for any good soul who wants to keep a Decker company in their final hours. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The yo-yo attached to Alex’s belt spun, trailing out thirty yards of specially designed advanced nylon cord. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I watch the Home Channel with Lola. It’s our thing. Plus, I have my dad's old sketchbooks with all his house designs.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Constitution was designed so the federal government would be weak, not only in its relationship to private property, but also in relationship to the rights of states to conduct their own affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z While each episode is a self-contained narrative designed to illuminate one propitious moment with as much storytelling skill as I can muster, taken together they feature several common themes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At the press conference, reporters scribbled notes, and photographers’ cameras clicked as Lin went over her design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z No more, and no less, and it had been designed for the same purpose; namely, the sanctification of power. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Teresa and I helped design the Maze. We helped create the whole thing.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “It was a deliberate test,” said Nixon, “clearly designed to take the measure of me and my administration at the outset.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Yes. There can be no mistake. They were a family heirloom. There are no two others like them. My grandmother had them designed and made to order.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course Mr. Neely would let us test the design from his classroom window after school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Even inventions that meet the need for which they were initially designed may later prove more valuable at meeting unforeseen needs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a wooden box designed to look like a raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He looked lovingly into the flowing water, into the transparent green, into the crystal lines of its wonderful design. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence worked on the tube design with an intensity he had not shown since the Alpha racetrack project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But plutonium was a little easier to make, and the plutonium bomb design was far more complicated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible that the invention of antibodies evolved from the earlier sensing mechanisms needed for symbiosis, perhaps designed, in part, to keep the latter from getting out of hand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It had the sleek, aerodynamic design of a hunter, every angle purpose-built to reduce drag to the merest fraction. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z After all, she designed the system, so of course she would describe it in the best possible light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Doing all that Chandresh asked of him and more, to the point where he was given free rein with everything from approving the design of the gates to ordering the canvas for the tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As he builds the assassination scheme in his head, layer by layer, everything is designed to make him the star performer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I have a lovely pale red-and-mauve design: “Ice cream!” the chimp artist had signed as she handed it to her human teacher. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z We baked, we watched crime dramas and designed beaded bracelets. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And the spy plane's structure had been designed for stealth, not strength. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They were designed for winter wear, when treacherous drafts came down chimneys and insidious currents of deadly cold found their way through keyholes. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Inevitably it follows that intensive spraying with powerful chemicals only makes worse the problem it is designed to solve. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He peppered Lawrence with pointed gossip about rival institutions that might have designs on him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We chose Thanksgiving weekend for the big test of our new design. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Most had carvings of animals the same as the totem designs on the at.oow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The techniques and training were not designed for the boys at all but only to make Cyrus a great man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Before long, however, the chair started to attract the attention of some of the very cutting-edge elements of the design community. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I wanted my design to work with the land, to make something with the site, not to fight it or dominate it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It had been designed, by the first Joseph Hooper, as a library, and there were still the glass cases, reaching from floor to ceiling, all around the room, filled with books. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Intricate dragons and multicolored clouds that matched the designs of the gold bracelet he wore were embroidered on his robes and glittered in the light. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “A number designed to rank my intelligence in relation to the entire human population,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we couldn’t “moon walk” during Gemini, but we could “space walk” and find out how to design portable breathing and cooling equipment. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartments weren’t designed for that many, but that was what Harlem was about, working people doing the best they could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The last play was designed specifically for English, and Coach called it “Fist.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Perfectly round, immensely hard and light—they couldn’t have been designed better. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He handed out copies of the plans for the new design to all the school board members, keeping his back to my father and me the whole time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z His insight was reinforced by a demand from the Research Corporation’s Howard Poillon that he bring the X-ray tube to a patentable stage without delay and without disclosing his design to outsiders. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That each living thing was specially designed, that one species did not become another, were notions perfectly consistent with what our ancestors with their limited historical records knew about life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one person could have designed the outfit, at first glance utterly utilitarian, at second a work of art. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As beautiful as the design was, I worried over its weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Burnham ordered all designs strengthened to withstand the highest winds recorded over the previous ten years. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The early afternoon sun painted sharp geometric designs across Sierra’s room. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The coach barked the number of the next play, a play designed to suck in Carter, the big beefy varsity guard who looked as if he could chew freshmen up and spit them out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in my room, designing more nozzles, when I heard her hurry off to bed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was transferred onto a specially designed thick mattress nestled atop a box full of cushions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She sketched out the design on graph paper, and the stonecutter went to work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was bright yellow with black fenders, a streamlined car of graceful design. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The design of the moldboard plow is so obvious that it seems incredible that Europeans never thought of it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The absence of significant constraints on the exercise of police discretion is a key feature of the drug war’s design. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, there are examples of the successful transfer of designs through the medium of print. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Soviets had taken no risks: The trench was designed to keep the CIA away. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If my father was sounding more arrogant than usual, it’s because he had brought home a scale model of his design for the new junior high school, and he figured it was a winner. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “The room was still as death,” Burnham said, “save for the low voice of the speaker commenting on his design. It seemed as if a great magnet held everyone in its grasp.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sacks containing chemicals designed to rid the lawn of such despised vegetation have become almost a status symbol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A. To create her magnificent new book, Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Maria took elements from the studies she painted in Surinam and produced complex full-page designs in watercolors. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Um, well, your designs did have a lot of personality, but...” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All tomb plans were similar in design, but he could now tell one from another by recognizing some detail. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z "That's the science of designing replacement parts for the human body." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “You think so? Mrs. Newman asked me to make a sign for the International Festival. These are preliminary designs.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Now he’s arranging things around my living room: clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he’s drawn. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As the buildings rose, the architects spotted flaws in their designs but found the forward crush of work so overwhelming, it threatened to leave the flaws locked in stone, or at least staff. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The assignment was to design an outdoor shopping/dining center in my favorite style. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 A US government artist’s rendering from September 1984 of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which envisioned a network of space-based lasers and other weaponry designed to intercept Soviet ICBMs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He sent Alvarez home to Berkeley to assemble a reactor design team and spread the word that the Radiation Laboratory had a new mission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z All systems were designed for worst-case scenarios; each did its job admirably. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When I ride the bus, 1 simply roll down our ramp, down the driveway, onto the bus lift, and into a specially designed area of the bus that straps my chair into place. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Mace was probably aware of Galileo's research, which included the design - not made in his lifetime - of a pendulum clock that pre-dates Huygens by fourteen years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The boss greeted his new recruit with the news that he had secured $70,000 in funding for the new sixty-inch cyclotron, and that Alvarez’s role would be to design its magnet. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He writes back to inform her that it has been specifically designed to be manipulated by either side, so she may add whatever she wishes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “This container is designed to keep the agent cold and under pressure. Be mindful while it remains in the workshop. Avoid excessive heat in its immediate vicinity.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The rover was designed to support three people for two days, plus some reserve for safety. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s very old—a Greek design. We used to have a few in the armory before...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z All those early Old World wheels are of a peculiar design: a solid wooden circle constructed of three planks fastened together, rather than a rim with spokes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The critical components are designed to survive a vacuum. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There would be ninety-six tanks to each oval, each holding two calutrons back to back, designed to beam uranium ions in 180-degree arcs four feet in radius from source to collector. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At Oppenheimer’s office on the Berkeley campus, they began designing the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My father assembled his long bamboo fishing pole, a pole he had made with his own two hands, remembering its design from his childhood in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He would later recall the lesson he had learned in that bloody valley: “There is nothing more necessary than good Intelligence to frustrate a designing enemy, & nothing that requires greater pains to obtain.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But the legacy of the mechanical philosophy was not simply modern versions of the argument from design, which are still widely defended in the form of Intelligent Design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Zeitoun designed an addition that will give all the children their own rooms, and will allow Kathy to work at home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My only worry is that every time I’ve wanted something to go a certain way in all of this, it’s gone the other, designed perfectly to challenge me with the unknown. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Not in a regular bathtub, but in a special pool designed for having babies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mack departed and returned almost immediately with a universal No which was designed by Lee Chong to cover all future requests. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But that did not mean designing the Y-12 magnets would be without its challenges, for all the racetrack magnets combined would be one hundred times larger. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We expect great things from men who have made such a noble stand against the designs of their fellow-men to enslave them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I know all about that—it’s like finding out that the factions are an artificial system, designed by scientists to keep us under control for as long as possible. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The thimble was a crucial part of architect Frank Burnham’s design, meant to shield the surrounding wooden walls from the superheated gases exiting the stack. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These were designed to keep the new tin helmets from freezing to the head. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The design is so perfect that we cannot move a single element without upsetting the delicate balance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of Twig’s egg drop designs ended up being impossible to create, which was pretty unsurprising, but she insisted on making as many as she could and testing those out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Your alpanas get better every day, Daughter,” Father said, studying the design she was creating on the threshold. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z The secrecy, dating back to the previous October, was designed to conceal from the International Olympic Committee the political and ideological source of the film’s funding. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The cross-staff is merely one of a series of instruments, such as the quadrant and the sextant, designed for measuring angles by taking sightings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I wasn’t up for watching Buzz’s demo reel or hearing about the friendly-faced Buddha she needed for the Tibetan prayer room she was designing. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a hard brown block that had a design of six squares. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z While electrician at Auburn prison, he designed both the first electric chair and testing procedures for it that involved large slabs of meat. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His penchant was for textured synthetic fabrics, often featuring some geometric design like diamonds or pentagons. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s designed to stay afloat under the most adverse conditions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Intricately whorled and squirled, the braid trimming was designed to call attention to her modest bust already helped out by two rows of ruffles pinned to her corset cover. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed, in an alcove at the far end of the room, was draped with a splendid cloth embroidered over its entire surface with intricate designs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z These were of objects the helmet was designed to keep out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He, God, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgment: designing an imperfect universe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind is too preoccupied with the magnificence of this design. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the following weeks William planned and sketched and eventually settled on his final design. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Moreover, absent from Papin’s design was a simple device employed by Savery: the use of a spray of water over the cylinder to cool it in order to speed the condensation of the steam. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you finish your alpana design, my daughter? That way you can keep an eye on the rickshaw, too.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Her dad owns a print and design shop. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The zombie line thickened in the center, forming a wedge designed to break through the enemy host. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It enabled more people in more places to design, display, manage, and collaborate on business data previously handled manually. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I suspected there were dimensional relationships involved in rocket design, such as a proper ratio between the area of the guidance-controlling fins to the area of the casement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I’m Managing My Expectations, but I’m sure at least a couple of our six egg drop designs will survive the fall. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Olmsted’s memory was not so destroyed that he did not realize he himself had designed McLean’s grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’ve heard his name before, but how can you be sure this manikin is his design?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lighter and darker scales wove geometric designs much like the diamond and mountain designs on the rugs that Nali used to weave. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It had been designed to reach an altitude of five miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, I have an idea. Maybe you can design the antidote.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z "What about designing costumes for the upcoming musical?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z More repressive laws designed to suppress black anger sailed through Parliament with little opposition; more black informants were recruited to report on events in the ghettos. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It is as if a building he’d been responsible for designing has collapsed for all to see. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Not from the second story, which was technically three stories up from the sidewalk because of the school’s design. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He convinced two of his coworkers to quit their jobs and form a design firm with him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They discussed boat design and rigging techniques, debated racing strategy, recounted past victories and defeats, and analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of other crews and coaches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Before the 1970s, government policy was designed to support small farmers, not agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Vanished states tended to leave visible archaeological hallmarks, such as ruins of temples with standardized designs, at least four levels of settlement sizes, and pottery styles covering tens of thousands of square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If Lkossa had been designed like a pie—a circle cut into thick, even slices—then this had to be its center. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And a third looked like she designed it! The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Naomi was designing reflective mobiles to hang from the basketball hoops. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Farmer, the anthropologist, designed his own study centered on a random group of about two hundred women in Cange. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Our bodies were viewed as mere vehicles, pasty, potbellied machines designed to transport our thoughts from one place to another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Your designs are so original, they surprise us,” one of them explained. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But not one of the spells he had practiced had been designed to combat a sudden reversal of ground and sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She was wearing cut-off jeans that had bizarre, frantic designs drawn on them in Magic Marker and a spandex top which revealed her intensely aerobicized midriff. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "Martin's mother wanted it designed as a greenhouse, too," says Shanti. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In order to provide raking and flanking fire along every wall, forts needed to be designed on the page, with carefully measured angles and distances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since the barricade was designed to stop vehicles, not pedestrians, we’re able to walk around it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Her goblet was chased silver, too, in a design of twined myrantine branches. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Training Center has a tower designed exclusively for the tributes and their teams. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I understand what you mean. My dad designed the library’s front doors.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The drug was Phalanxifor, this molecule designed to attach itself to cancer cells and slow their growth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z ‘She’s designing you a beautiful mark so when you are man- grown and master smith you can stamp your silver with it.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z While Howard gathered up the old shoes to have them cast into silver ashtrays to give to reporters, Smith got a farrier to design special new turn-gripping shoes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs were basic colors like Easter eggs that no one in Tabriz would know. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It clearly wasn’t designed for eating or performing odd jobs around the campfire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In its elegant simplicity, the wetu’s design would have pleased the most demanding modernist architect. than the typical English wattle-and-daub house, too. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Warships are designed to withstand the strike of a torpedo or the blast of a mine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A soldier stood by to frustrate the designs of thieves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Their goal was to finalize the plant’s design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Parents who spent their days designing, building, fixing, and operating machines of transportation signed their sons up and gave free rein to their own tinkering instincts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Starting perhaps a hundred feet below them on the steeper side of the mountain, the patch might have been designed expressly for fuel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "And it'll be broadcasting. It's not a strong signal; it's only designed to go a couple hundred meters to the rover or Hab. But maybe we can pick it up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When we reach the foot of the bridge, Phil pauses, sweeping his hand over the vista as he talks about the vision of Taro Otsuka, Fabyan’s private gardener who designed this place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Sitting there on my rug in my bedroom, I started designing blueprints for a brand-new city, with brand-new buildings and totally new stories. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Nor evidently did he transfer the design onto the canvas but worked directly on the surface, making subtle adjustments as he went along. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z People with autism are obsessed with mechanical objects, but this was a movie that followed very much the spare, actor-focused design of the stage. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s enormous, nearly the size of a commercial liner—except thin and sleek, with an elegant, sharp-nosed design that distinguishes it from the other jets. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Coach seats are not designed for people our height. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Those details of typewriter, clock, and calendar design have not affected the competitive success of the societies adopting them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Resistance to insecticides by mosquitoes of the anophelene group has surged upward at an astounding rate, being created by the thoroughness of the very house-spraying programs designed to eliminate malaria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They were designed to capture antelopes, but I’d seen bonobos at the sanctuary with hands or feet missing from snares like those. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Different hues blended into one another where the glaze pooled thickly in the crevices or glossed sheer on the raised surfaces of an incised design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Imagine spending 180 days a year in a place that’s designed to take everything you’re not good at and make it important. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Grandma asked as she began to sketch the design for my dress. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may even be unique. Certainly it is of Dumbledore’s own design. Why would he have left you an item so rare?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The mission is designed to handle sandstorm gusts up to 150 kph. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed to be some kind of design on the flat, closed end. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Every step in the decade-long process of designing and building the city predestined to carry his name was supervised by Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This VPN allows us to share the feed from the microphone, images from the session, the real-time script, and all the animation designs amongst all the locations with a simple log-in. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Such statements seemed almost designed to invite misunderstanding, which is precisely what they did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As soon as I could work with a needle, I was allowed to stitch simple designs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons, against an inertial plate, each explosion providing a kind of “putt-putt,” a vast nuclear motorboat in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z C.P. didn’t add that the Klan SOS program was designed to frustrate desegregation, not implement it, but he didn’t have to. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We got a hastily scheduled hearing in the trial court in Dothan, where I tried to present evidence that the bomb Herbert had constructed was designed to go off at a certain time. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It just turned back and rested against the designed wood like a lovely, dark, polished shell. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the mid-seventeenth century, gears were laid out and cut by hand; Hooke designed the first machine to produce identical gears, thus making possible the mass production of machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Natural objects have, for an Aristotelian, their own internal formative principles, while artificial objects are made according to a design imposed from outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their teacher, a charming eight-months-pregnant young woman dressed in a traditional Indian sari, moved seamlessly among British, American, and Canadian accents as she demonstrated reading a paragraph designed to highlight phonetics. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z This was not dangerous, for he rarely actually struck us at the table, but it was designed to show us all up as dull-witted, bovine females. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ludus had been designed as a place of learning, so the planet had been created without a single quest portal or gaming zone anywhere on its surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Wrestling is one of those sports designed for people who’ve lived tough lives. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I designed a Nature Hike Anklet, which leaves a trail of bright yellow dye when you walk, so in case you get lost, you can find your way back. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad majored in architecture, like I will one day, and Mom studied interior design. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Because only the hand understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six days of creation had evolved into a Master Work. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why? To be able to design something with your mind and your hands is a powerful skill to have. It’s your own creation. Who wouldn’t want to know how to do that?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Here nine hundred food scientists spend their days designing the future of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z As Jean Louise listened, her year’s collection of revolting information fell into a fresh crystal design; as Calpurnia’s husky voice drove out her year’s accumulation of terror, Jean Louise felt life return. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Some would-be architects of our future look toward a time when it will be possible to alter the human germ plasm by design. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This design was thought too similar to the United States flag and on May 1, 1863, a second design, nicknamed the Stainless Banner, was authorized. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z This is a farm policy that is not designed to help farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It was to be an intricate and provocative design in green, yellow, and blue pins, all cool colors, and its title was Pre-Cambrian Memory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly, the students had worked with the architects who designed it. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Min would add his ideas for the inlay design, reject them angrily, and hand the wood back to her to be wiped and reused. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They look like eighteenth-century designs, but the images are of people in the neighbourhood, our friends. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Everything was in place for us to take the next big step in rocket design. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We did,” said Maria Carlos, who was wearing a peregrine T-shirt she had designed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But I knew the planet must have been coded by Halliday, because its design matched the world described in 2112’s liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He believes that the shape, colour and texture of a plant can be a clue to how it will work as a medicine because God designed nature to be interpreted by mankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Stacked on the table, their colorful stripes and woven designs folded inside, they make the rest of the room feel cold and empty. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z From her point of view, claiming that Amazonian societies could escape their environmental constraints was little more than a display of scientific ignorance, the archaeological version of try- ing to design perpetual-motion machines. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was designed in the Western style, a long strand, each bead the same size and of an identical pinkish tone, with a heavy brooch of ornate silver to clasp the ends together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The law was designed to prevent information that could harm the United States from reaching an enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Hamilton resisted the recommendation, arguing quite plausibly that such a specific proposal was inappropriate for an address designed to operate at a higher altitude. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s always surprising to me to see how often scientists thoughtlessly use synonyms in comparisons, because the cardinal principle of experimental design is the Rule of One Variable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The expedited work was finished by the end of May, and a vast circular building near Strawberry Canyon originally designed to house the world’s biggest cyclotron became the headquarters of an entirely different project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He set his teacup down on the table and twisted it so that the design lined up with the teapot. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z And the vase would be carefully, delicately inlaid, with a design of—of. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Then Min would carve out the design a bit at a time. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The building’s broad design and its function had come to him all at once, like a blueprint pulled from a drawer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of them held a purple banner with the blade scythe design. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Originally Burnham wanted Adler & Sullivan to design the fair’s Music Hall, but partly out of a continued sense of having been wronged by Burnham, the partners had turned the project down. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The accountant who wants to stay in business in America will be the one who focuses on designing creative, complex strategies, like tax avoidance or tax sheltering, managing customer relationships,” he said. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When a fellow architect asked Sullivan for suggestions on how to improve one of his designs, Sullivan replied, “If I told you, you wouldn’t know what I was talking about.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It was designed by Roman demigods,” Jason said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z How do you, another would-be user, then design something similar for your own use, knowing that other people have already got their own model built and working? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The arrows that Beetee designed are no less remarkable than the bow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This was a matter of coincidence rather than design; the senior ANC leadership on the island, the only four to have served on the National Executive Committee, happened to be Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are countless tattoos, and yet they meld and flow into one design gracefully adorning her like an elegant, unusual piece of jewelry. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Two chairs were covered in similar ghastly designs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z This Congressional Gold Medal was designed specifically for us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The old, churchy look is so different from the rest of the hospital’s modern, sleek design. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z This simple design has helped to produce one of the most extraordinary systems of racialized social control the world has ever seen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “No, Reynard, in this case simplicity is essential. My Whisperer is designed to soothe troubled minds, and nothing soothes the mind more effectively than a simple answer to a complicated problem.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Take those curtains,” McGarrity said, waving a thick hand at the half curtains made of yellow calico with a red rose design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I could design the questionnaire myself, I think. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I need to see some design ideas for when I buy my own run-down house in Bushwick and renovate it,” she says in a dreamy, la-la-land voice. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Beneath my feet was a hooked rug in the design of a huge violet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The kameez has a dark pink and green design with gold trim and a pink salwar to go with it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was a simple weapon, unadorned by any jewels or intricate designs on its wooden hilt, but Ekon’s breath still caught when he saw the name carved into it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I frame a shot of a woman in niqab, a face covering, decorating Julies freckled arm with intricate designs of henna. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z New laws went into effect specifically designed to quell black anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In New York, Root assured the architects again and again that he would do nothing to interfere with their designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Akimi turned around and whispered, “My dad designed the support structure for that thing. Check out the hinges.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The colored entrance was around the side but apart from that was identical to the white entrance, in the original design and not an afterthought, as was so often the case. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He and two other pilots traveled from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington, in the United States, flying in a special long-distance plane designed by Andrey Tupolev. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Other parts we have to crawl at an excruciatingly slow pace, because of rocks bulldozed into five-foot berms, intentionally formed into a maze designed to direct the flow of water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The beads in her designs were laid down in strict rows. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Why would someone design a set of stairs like that? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is carefully designed and proportioned, and yet it flows with graceful ease. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Though they may harness winds and currents, they are unable to control these natural forces, and are always constrained by their physical design. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That is where three meals a day for thirty-seven thousand animals are designed and mixed by computer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The design is nevertheless attractive in its own right, and Johns must have chosen it for that reason. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the end of class, more bad design — he discovered that it was hard to get out of the tower. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z One morning Annabeth and I were sitting by the canoe lake sketching chariot designs when some jokers from Aphrodite’s cabin walked by and asked me if I needed- to borrow some eyeliner for my eye ... The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z If their placement had been designed to symbolize a separation from the Court of Honor’s technological advances, then what messages were their actual content meant to send? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "The design you shaved in that little girl's hair was rude," Padma says, then giggles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He wore a frizzy sweater with a hoofprint design on it, and he had a blanket on his lap that almost hid his wheelchair completely. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I have to say, your design was my favorite.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then the pawnbroker looked at the four rugs, carefully inspecting the designs and weaving. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The machine was just a rusty box with wheels, but he painted it with seafaring designs and gave it a fake ship’s smokestack. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ecologically, the region is a treasure, but one designed and executed by human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the past three years, she's been earning good money designing websites. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z First, as John S. Lewis notes, our missiles are not designed for space work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I get a good haul from the traps—eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The statement, which was clearly designed to mollify conservatives, received an icy reception in Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I designed a site with us running hand in hand through some kind of field. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, however, Norris Bradbury relished getting a breather from the relentless demand for more designs and more tests. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I was still living in Chicago when I began to receive creepy Christmas newsletters designed to look like tabloids and annual reports. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The rivalry weighed heavily at the Rad Lab: having learned that Brookhaven was about to submit its proposal, Lawrence gave Brobeck and his design staff a scant two weeks to finish theirs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was nonexistent. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This system is better designed to create crime, and a perpetual class of people labeled criminals, rather than to eliminate crime or reduce the number of people under the system’s control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Viento!” she said, moving her hands across the air like she was weaving an intricate design and manipulating the wind so it interlaced and made...a cage of thorns. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was as though the room had been designed to be hosed out for efficient cleaning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She’d gotten flustered while baking, so her pie crust design looked messy. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Cecilia went to Briony’s bedroom and rummaged in a drawer for the least girlish design—white, ankle length, with red and green strawberries around the tops. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now I see why Hideo designed his house in Tokyo the way he did; it must remind him of here, his true home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In a universe so cruel and unfair, so designed to torment him, he’d been given a mother who cared for him, deeply and completely. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jam could smell the saltfish buljol he was making, and as they heard her enter, they both turned and smiled in a way that was designed to hide their worry but failed terribly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Didu talks about winning first prize in a dance contest the summer she was fifteen, and how everyone raved over her feet with their henna designs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve played with a lot of the Capitol’s weapons in training, but none designed for military combat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Nigel, too, was irritating him, suddenly talking about the town houses Obinze was planning to build, how exciting the new architect’s design was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For a moment I was strolling again, finding childish comfort in its incongruous design. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Having direct knowledge of the Lyceum, he probably helped design arrangements in the Museum; he is credited with urging Ptolemy I to purchase and/or copy books in vast numbers for the Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Those blankets were so scratchy, I wondered if the person who designed them thought: How can I make the world’s worst blanket? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I wonder what these people do for a living because this place belongs in a magazine—Chinese lanterns, what appears to be real artwork, and intricately designed rugs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She had on a white dashiki etched in purple, blue, and black designs over white pants, and she looked stunning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At the top of the stairs was this plain old bathroom with a shower curtain that had all kinds of fish designs on it. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z We are merely pieces of a grander design, even more insignificant than I imagined. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The new tunnel design set the stage for the second of the decade’s significant developments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She curled snugly along the inside of my body, so easy and natural, as if she had been designed to fit there. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Nowadays, we tend to think of architecture in terms of enclosed interiors, but we also have landscape architects, who design gardens, parks, and playgrounds. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus’s universe was no longer Earth-centred, but it was still Earth-friendly, and there was no reason to think it was not the product of benevolent design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “What a coincidence! It’s also where I'm strongest. This tank is specially designed to contain demigods. Now, have fun, you two. I’ll see you at feeding time!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It dramatizes sound with unique artistic rhythm and design. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z "The crew may have to fix things here and there, but they're well trained. Remember, Hermes was made to do all five Ares missions. It's only halfway through its designed life span." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mac might have been the first computer with a real sense of design, but the Stormbreaker had far surpassed it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Her notes were coded signals that were designed to lead researchers deeper into her own files, where they could start to piece together what had really happened. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sitting in his car, he quickly finished the paper, which included vital details on plutonium bomb design, as well as a technical description of the uranium bomb used at Hiroshima. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even Daddy used to boast about your designs to his golf club cronies. All I ever heard was Helena this, Helena that.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z "Actually, they're designed that way. You don't need to lace up." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The ventilation system was not designed for so many people, and everyone had been working every waking moment without much time for personal hygiene. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came a human-interest story about a New York City program designed to expose the homeless to great works of art. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It’s a hypothetical molecular-engineering technology in which objects are designed and built with the individual specification and placement of each separate atom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Pages of tables and designs for instruments were probably often torn out for ready reference, leaving mutilated copies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But he is a good watch dog—has a roar like a lion, designed to conceal from night-wandering strangers the fact that he couldn’t bite his way out of a comet de papier. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “No danger is to be apprehended,” Wright wrote, saying that revolution had not flared up in Georgia or “in the proceedings or designs of our neighbors of South Carolina.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Team Coding Queens had designed an app that predicted the future. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It looks like someone lifted the top off a large pool table, designed a course on it, and dropped it in the middle of Grace’s room. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Glinting on the boat’s prow was a laurel wreath design with the letters SPQR. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were eight copies of the Seagull paper airplane design. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The design for the uranium bomb was complete, and the plutonium bomb was nearly done. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z His version of the story may be better than mine because of its bareness, not twisted into designs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their death-in-prison sentences were insulated from legal challenges or appeals by a maze of procedural rules, statutes of limitations, and legal barricades designed to make successful postconviction challenges almost impossible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A month from now, he will begin a new job at a smaller architectural practice, producing his own designs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Newcomb worked alongside Director of the Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell, who had engineering training, to find a solution that improved on Jennings’s basic design. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z According to that argument, we can tell that the universe has a creator because only an external agent could have designed and constructed it so that its different parts serve their specific functions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mom worked from home, designing websites, and sometimes she lost track of time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z These nonrelativistic starships, enormously expensive as they would be, look relatively easy to design and build and use compared to starships that travel close to the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to being a fascinating tale designed to catch your attention, it introduces themes that reverberate throughout all the stories that follow by serving as the exception that proves the rule. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His crew design was a fist and another hand holding up two fingers, with a Glock and a dove in the background. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z With the suitcase Tessie had had no time to consult me, and so there it was, bearing a design like a place mat’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And, of course, would this design even work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Evan tells Gogol that it’s an apartment worth seeing, a Tribeca loft that happens to be designed by one of the partners at the firm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You know the house I’m designing for her dad?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Did that wretched sign bring you? Because we’re not in the mood to design anything. Especially not for random people who haven’t made an appointment. Besides, the inspiration to create just isn’t there, is it?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The walls of the huts were decorated with black, red and ocher designs, while the doors were carved with crosshatched decorations. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Additions made in different handwriting, layers placed on top of original designs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He whirled his plastic glass in his hand and regarded the rinse of whisky left in it, a gesture often designed to draw emptiness to the attention of a host. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The veterans had expected a big, prestigious design firm or architecture firm to win the contest, one headed by an experienced male. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Bearing clubs, spears, bows, lances, slings, and copper axes, brilliant in cloaks of feathers and silver breastplates, their faces painted in terrifying designs, the Inka army plunged into the forests of the northern coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This gave it a kind of liveliness, a tendency to spring forward on the catch of the oars in a way that no other design or material could duplicate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To help me design an honor code, John recommended that I get advice from a lawyer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He’d started carving designs into the pine beams and had installed a homemade skylight in the roof, which was awesome. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The older women laughed at some of my designs, but their laughter was kind. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But his design was too vague and perhaps too revolutionary to convince the examiners. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the time Cicero reaches his peroration, he has asked something in the order of fifty questions to Catiline—each designed to make his failure to go into voluntary banishment look bizarre and unnatural. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I tell him I'd be glad to look at his design sketches. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Nazis had forced us into impossibly crowded conditions designed to bring out the worst in people. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The theory behind his idea was that the sharp throat I’d designed made for a hot spot along its thin edge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His armour was etched with flame designs, his hair braided with bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The designs on this water monster were very different from Pond’s. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The common perception had always been that Burnham managed the business side of the firm, while Root did all the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A random series of events given meaning by someone desperate to prove there’s a design to our lives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As if his design were to watch me steadily unravel from the inside out, to record in my fraying mesh of self the hidden hazard of all traitors and spies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mind, my entire life is this gigantic chess match, where every tiny move I make in the seventh grade has to be perfectly designed to bring about some glorious endgame decades later. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They’re beautiful: a filigreed pattern, like those Persian designs on mosques, supporting sapphire stones. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z What is most interesting about this page is a subliminal impression created by an accident in its design. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All you have to do is heed the design—the way it's laid out for you, considerate, mindful of where you want to go and what you might need tomorrow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Partly by design, then, and partly by custom, blacks and whites were kept apart in the tobacco factories, working on different floors and even in separate buildings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like ships had most captured his imagination, so for Christmas I gave him a book about their history and design. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His skin was dark red and tattooed with blue wave designs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And, even though the Klan may not have been as deadly as generally thought, it was plenty violent and, perhaps worse, had ever greater designs on political influence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was more at ease with formal or geometric designs where the composition was well- defined. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Golden, still getting maximum usage from his beloved Grade Sorter, raved about the design to one of his former classmates, the director of a big city think tank in Richmond, Virginia. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments are attempted on an improved design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If Newtonianism destroyed the corpuscular philosophy, it greatly strengthened the argument from design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He designed each story to hook the audience within minutes so that people didn’t turn the dial to another program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z When she received pictures of the most recent fashions in the mail, they only proved that she had not been wrong about the models that she designed herself and sewed on Amaranta’s primitive pedal machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Its vocal ranges were operatic, its naturalistic acting style more like that of a play, its structure of spoken plot-carrying scenes interspersed with verse-chorus- designed songs akin to those in musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I am dying to try a different subject, something easy like designing an entire city or copying the Mona Lisa, but he won’t budge. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Someday I'm going to design costumes for a show like that. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Because most of it just wasn’t the kind of stuff I'd want everyone in the whole world finding out about on some new perverted website designed by our demented scrum half. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z This program let you draw and design things in your tablet like you were really building stuff in the real world. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Huygens had contributed to the design of the first microscopes and himself made many discoveries with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Specific tactics included motorcades, parades, banners, billboards, transcontinental automobile trips, and speaking tours—all designed to educate the public about why women deserved the vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The glaze would collect in the crevices of the design, making it slightly darker than the rest of the surface. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Having finally selected a design, Min began incising it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His hands went to his mouth; he choked, shut his eyes, bent, and a thick rush of fluid filled his mouth, spilled out, fell to splash on the tiles, covering the designs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When that happens, Lola and I eat on TV trays while watching design shows. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z This place was designed for an extended stay. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Historians of astronomy trade insults on the question of whether there are equants in Copernicus or not; the answer is that there are no equants, but there are mechanisms designed to replicate equants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Flowever, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I had half a tuna sandwich stuffed in my mouth when “Kate” asked if I'd like to design the shirts for the One Drum music festival in April. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A cool phoenix design had been etched into his close-cropped hair, and he wore a silver hoop earring in his right ear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The first resolution was designed to appease the Deep South by confirming that the Constitution prohibited any federal legislation limiting or ending the slave trade until 1808. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Pleiades Corp designed these luxury vessels to take rich people across the galaxy in comfort. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Since most of the students were transient and many had behavior problems, the curriculum was designed more to keep us out of trouble than on grade level. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Mom designs postcards; Dad works in health insurance,” I said. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was my signature color, but the hat was designed, after all, for sun protection. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In other words, if one used equipment designed to examine electrons as particles, they would appear to behave as particles; if one used equipment best suited for detecting waves, they appeared as waves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The design was fairly simple, and the wood required was easily obtainable from the managed forest on the western side of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z How long would it be before he had skill enough to create a design worthy of such a vase? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And with those words Mami sealed a pact she had designed, written, and signed for me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Since then, there’s been the process of narrowing down the designs, creating the dresses, and choosing the accessories. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z My own apartment was, I believe, originally designed as a one-bedroom flat with a dining room, kitchen, living room, and nursery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My dad was still tuned in, however, playing sofa soldier from the pullout in the office, the one with the metal bar underneath the seat cushions, specially designed to ensure maximum discomfort. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The colonial state was authoritarian, a benignly brutal dictatorship designed to benefit Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This’ll sound crazy, I know—a kid like me from the boonies on the Eastern Shore—but what I want to do someday is design buildings—maybe even parks and stuff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Around 1810, Sequoyah decided to go on to design a system for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some flaw or other in our design always spelled its doom. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The original magnet design called for using copper for the electromagnet coils and the massive transmission bus that carried electricity to the racetracks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And X identified an experimental plane still under development, designed for the purpose of research and testing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He also campaigned for mandatory meat inspections in Germany, designed a sewer system for Berlin, and founded a nursing school and hospitals. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The wide avenues of Torrance were drawn up a century ago by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., who helped design the Mall in Washington. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Vectors depicting advanced computer-aided design models for amazing new skyscrapers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Six people in an ascent vehicle originally designed for a twenty-three-minute flight. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course they are. This test material is specially designed—” “It’s just a bunch of dumb, random facts,” Annabeth insisted. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But these machines were different, designed for different jobs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z In mid-1951 he developed a radically new design based on placing microscopically thin wires just behind the tube’s glass viewing surface. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Who knows how long it would have taken for a federal judge to conclude that the Odessa school board, by clear design, had maintained a segregated school system for close to sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was on a bench, trying to ignore the Daniels’ whooping and yipping, designed to catch the attention of a couple of girls. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z He and John Root had considered designing the whole exposition themselves, and indeed their peers jealously expected they would do so. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Descartes and Boyle are confident they can protect themselves from atheism, the first by distinguishing mind from matter, and the second by regarding the natural world as providing proof of God’s design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nabila admired my intricate orange henna designs, and Fatima hugged me and didn’t let go until she extracted a promise of a lesson as soon as our work was done. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The virus was designed to slowly weaken in infection rate as it spreads from host to host. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Although he had never built a kiln before, he believed his design would generate temperatures extreme enough to incinerate anything within. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’d never seen it before,” Dr. Strayer said, adding that the challenge of the dual tasks “are designed to destroy most people.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Two critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As Mr. Curtain banged through the door to the Institute Control Building, it occurred to Reynie that every door in the Institute must have been designed to be opened in this violent manner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The fourth was a gesture toward the northern interests, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on slave imports designed to discourage the practice without prohibiting it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The stretcher had been designed to be carried down the White House stairs while keeping the patient horizontal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Shin’s success in crawling through an electric fence designed to kill seems to have been a function of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was ready with a freshly designed vacuum chamber, eleven inches in diameter, when the new magnet arrived on July 3. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like Washington, he saw Jay’s Treaty as a shrewd if bittersweet bargain designed to postpone war with England for perhaps a generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His chief charge, though, was designing the next generation of rockets. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Amari loved her tribe’s design of animal figures and bold shapes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It won a design of the decade award from the Industrial Designers Society of America. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I’m sure it was perfectly clear to the engineers who designed it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z That two-way cross with all these designs around it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Tucker concentrated on a design someone had etched into his desktop. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She was standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial with her arms crossed, looking extremely pleased with herself, like she’d personally designed the place. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Even nature seems to have the golden ratio in its design plans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It was a tiny curse. The kind designed for mischievous immortal children.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She’d won the competition fair and square, and she still believed in her design 100 percent. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But the mind and will of the Black Captain were bent wholly on the falling city, and as yet no tidings came to him warning that his designs held any flaw. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not! I really like that design on the border. Have you shown Aunty yet?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He created a brand-new type of boat that featured a slick design and was powered by two water-cooled airplane engines. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Slumped against one wall was a large, stuffed cloth bag embroidered in black and green designs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Pocock wrote back with a long, detailed technical explanation of his design and proposed a few minor modifications that he thought might mollify Ebright without compromising the integrity of the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Later, the judges would score the surviving eggs based on durability and bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Argo II was designed like an ancient trireme, only twice as big. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It was a little like that, except the blots were black while this design had a host of colors. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “We like your designs, Dari,” I said before he could make things awkward. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z These suits were designed to fit each cosmonaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z “I also designed some party invitations with the address that we can print out and give away in person,” she said quickly, hoping to move the conversation in a new direction. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The South Carolina chains were of new manufacture—the keys and tumblers marked by regional design—but accomplished the purpose of chains. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “This particular design will only work in one place. My ma’s garden.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 From the packaging to the taste, fast food is designed to be eaten quickly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My stylist and friend, Cinna, who designed the gorgeous outfits that first made the audience take notice of me in the Hunger Games. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z However, all the messages sent by Morse code were false, designed to fool any Japanese monitoring our transmissions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mission was designed knowing that anything might need maintenance, so I have plenty of tools. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were hundreds of details to hammer out, but the basic design was set. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly to prove him wrong, I submitted my body to an experimental program of his design. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Moss realized that was probably by design. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Now, if I could just figure out how to design poetry as well as I design clothing, I could turn myself into somebody special. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean? What do you demand of your captain? Are you, then, so easily turned from your design? Did you not call this a glorious expedition? “And wherefore was it glorious? Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z It has fancy paper that is thick and yellow, with golden flowers designed in the corners. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The torch slid into a holder clearly designed for it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He saw Ash’s reddened face and added, “Unless you have other designs?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z MGF Oil Corporation also announced that it was entering into a venture to build a forty- story-plus world-class luxury hotel to be designed by I. M. Pei. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This place is designed to remind us again and again that we’re not really human. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The hairdresser and Madam spent hours consulting prints of fashionable ladies in Paris so that they could design a suitable hairstyle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 15, 1775, he paid $333.33 to an unidentified person “to go into the town of Boston; to establish a secret correspondence for the purpose of conveying intelligence of the Enemy’s movements and designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine. When Picasso designs a computer game, I’ll let you know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z This fire is designed to flush us out, to drive us together. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Wireless companies “designed everything to keep people talking in their cars.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Whoever designed New Rome had clearly poured a lot of time and love into the project. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Courts have repeatedly found the prison unconstitutionally overcrowded, with almost twice the number of women incarcerated as it was designed to hold. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It looked like rosewood; a painted design on the top was only just recognizable as a coat of arms. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The firm has recently expanded into computer-aided designs for a Japanese housing company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A behavioral scientist could hardly design a better experiment in his laboratory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It is designed like a giant bicycle wheel in the sky, supported by a massive A-frame. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Kira could see that it was intricately decorated with carved designs that interwove around it in complicated curves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He designed a house for John Walker, president of the yards, and met Walker’s daughter, Mary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The city convened a coroner’s inquest, which focused its attention on the building’s design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Project Daedalus is a recent design of the British Interplanetary Society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, the rules of the drug war game are designed to allow for the roundup of an unprecedented number of Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z How could none of them have thought of changing the design to make the plow more useful? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Will you help me with fixing up the room? You’re so good at interior design stuff.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Pike could not answer what White wanted to know most: Was Hale merely protecting Bryan, or was he part of a more intricate, nefarious design? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But now all that remained of the fantastical designs were faint waves on their fingers and the dark Sanskrit numbers on their palms. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I also designed a set of wedding rings, where each one takes the pulse of the person wearing it and sends a signal to the other ring to flash red with each heartbeat. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The walls, dark woodwork to shoulder height, were blue-figured paper above, with a design of tiny blue flowers, wreathed and gathered and delicate. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The Brahmin was silent so long that the stars passed across the small window and changed their design before the silence in the room was finally broken. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all purple and white and yellow, like some artist had designed an impossible bloom without worrying about composition, like he went wild and let it all go. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z If we designed our orbital town to spin, there would be weightlessness only at the center. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dari started sketching out new diagrams and structures—building off Twig’s wild ideas—and we made a plan to test the top two designs this weekend. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “He can be very immature and he slacks off a lot, but when it comes to design work, there’s nobody better. Great job with the flyers, A.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Their clothes were ragged and covered in filth, their bodies had warped into hideous designs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Steel girders replaced wood-framing, exteriors were made of brick or granite, and designs favored straight, simple lines. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I just showed him your drawing, because it was so good. I didn’t know he would use the same design.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z At nineteen he had designed a hand grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The odd design of the place, with its high windows and box-like mass, now appears futuristic and forward- thinking. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process; a new factor enters and takes over. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The strap’s design was simple, unusual, and consisted of blue curls that Ten Snow bashfully explained were the uncoiled heads of new spring ferns, her husband’s favorite food. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I guess Mom won, because she’s lipstick-free and wearing a colorful sundress that goes to her knees, one of Grandma’s designs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Note carefully how the fins are attached. See? They’re spring-loaded. Ingenious design!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Talking Robot was designed to answer questions, and only such questions as it could answer had ever been put to it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I did my best to make a cool design using the Defenders' colors, but it ended up just looking like bright blue with orange squiggles. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Her wrapper was dressy, with yellow print designs, and her matching blouse had yellow lace sewn onto the puffy, short sleeves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Woodcuts and engraving in particular were traditionally dependent on craftsmanship, which may explain why so few creative geniuses have made them and have generally been content to let others produce prints from their designs. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I could see it because I have seen people running away—the roads clogged to a standstill and the stampede over the cliff of our own designing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the most important thing was the full design of the atom bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was designed to her bones for a swifter life. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeffrey and I collaborated on the research, while Anna and Danielle were in charge of designing the arts and crafts activity. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The leather grip fit his hand like it had been custom designed for him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “These are designed to subdue background noise,” Mom explains. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “It was designed by a very well-known mortal age architect,” Scythe Curie told Citra as she led the way across a footbridge to the front door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The Dundee is a shoe designed for touring the landed estates, for tromping through mud while wearing a tie, with your spaniels trailing behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had come to this tower-keep by chance, and yet the chance was all design; or he had come by design and yet all the design had merely chanced to come about. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present- day society from being perceived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The table is a poorly designed piece that Harold made in his student days. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again, the answer lies in the system’s design. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s a hardcore design geek, and his room is an orchard of Apple products. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And this violence was not magical, but was of a piece and by design. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The design was simple, the word “Jude” at the top and “Vermin” at the bottom, a detailed drawing of what must have been a flea in between. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z And maybe Milt, who was very inventive, could design a weapon for him to use. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Galileo had close ties with Holland, and his first astronomical telescope was an improvement of a spyglass of Dutch design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The inner door opens, admitting him into the little air lock designed to keep patients from escaping. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The Byrne program was designed to encourage every federal grant recipient to help fight the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her long, tapered fingers with their bright-red nails pulled the threads in and out, stitching designs so intricate and clever, they took my breath away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The ritual seemed designed to send a message. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like the minstrel shows of the slavery and Jim Crow eras, today’s displays are generally designed for white audiences. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d heard Baba tell Rahim Khan that a judge had bought the land and that an architect was working on the design. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So the hand- drawn plans are sent electronically to China, where they are converted into digital designs, which then are e-mailed back to the Japanese building firm, which turns them into manufacturing blueprints. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A key element of the design had never been installed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That was a critical talent for a project facing such tight deadlines that immense factories would have to be designed and built for processes that could not be tested in advance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I spent a weekend visiting Craig at Princeton, where he seemed to have slipped into a productive rhythm of playing basketball, taking classes, and hanging out at a campus center designed for minority students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Only the oversized, brown webbed feet left something to be desired in their design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The idea at the research lab in Workingham was something of a gimmick, a “media event” designed to show some of the emerging research. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Japanese temple on the Wooded Island charmed Frank Lloyd Wright, and may have influenced the evolution of his “Prairie” residential designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What excited her about her achievement was its design, the pure geometry and the defining uncertainty which reflected, she thought, a modern sensibility. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Indeed, the act of exhorting was designed to enhance the prospect by talking about it as if it were a foregone conclusion, which Washington most assuredly knew it was not. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In his correspondence with the boatbuilder, he threatened to buy his equipment from an English supplier, demanded price concessions, and insisted on design modifications if he were to buy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He decided not to mention the engraved design. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Everything in it was designed for animals who looked, moved and thought differently from the way we did. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He had no designs but wanted the plot gone on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I squatted on the floor by his feet, scratching designs into the carpet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Like a fortress, it seemed designed to repel any attempt to get inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The laces of the sneakers had a design of hearts on them, red, purple, pink, and yellow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There would be no disregarding this sound, which seems designed to throw the whole population into a frenzy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And since the buildings were just pieces of software, their design wasn’t limited by monetary constraints, or even by the laws of physics. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It must have been designed by a committee because it’s a fairly pathetic barrier. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it was something about the design of the gardens, or the fact that the wrought-iron fence surrounding the lawns was nearly ten feet tall and unclimbable to my well-trained thief’s eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They were going to design a new main store and redesign every single one of the chain stores—and there were plenty of them, one in almost every town on Long Island. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “They don’t need horses to pull them. They were still perfecting the design when I left.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "It was designed to give the FBI phone-tap operators reassurance that I was still at home and keep them off my trail." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z More by accident than design, Brother Rufus spun around and sent the scalding contents of his mug splashing full into the rat’s eyes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They ran a graphic design business in town. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had a light complexion, large and peaceful eyes, and magical hands that seemed to work out the design of the embroidery with invisible threads. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Everything here was designed to hurt and kill. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was a child of the South Side, now raising daughters who slept in rooms designed by a high-end interior decorator and who could custom order their breakfast from a chef. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On Rose’s side of the bridge, the design was pretty everyday—just like her city was like real life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I may have no interest in designing clothes but I do love the ones Cinna makes for me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The coin was not actually minted until the 1830s, when it was used in Sierra Leone, the African colony designed for freed slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was all there, the design for his next move. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In theory, Serber explained, the design of the bomb could be very simple. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The design was pitch black, with a sea-green trident shimmering in the center. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In her preface, Maria declared that she offered her designs to all, “to copy and paint, and to sew in the women’s rooms, and for use and pleasure of all expert lovers of art.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For a century or so his pod designs had leaned toward the futuristic—plenty of neon and rubber. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It's almost like he's enjoying the design of me, the same way he appreciates the interlaced ballerinas. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He designed new instruments, capable of an exquisite precision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She has rose designs on her notebooks and book bag. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And if a contractor got big enough, or ambitious enough, he started designing his own patterns and preparing his own fabric. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The room overlooked a prayer garden that Rameel had designed and built for the church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z It shone upon the rows of armored suits, the edges of the swords and axes, and on spear tips and a thousand other pointy objects designed to spoil your day permanently. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “A climbing rope is designed to sort of attach you together, and you never let go of it,” he said. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Long ago, the clever person who designed the Fishery placed about two dozen drains in the workshop to help with cleaning and managing spills. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The duplicate designs were: a circle with a large maple leaf in the center, the tips of the leaf touching the sides of the circle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z These bureaucratic minefields are the modern-day equivalent of poll taxes and literacy tests—“colorblind” rules designed to make voting a practical impossibility for a group defined largely by race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “This could work,” I told her as I examined her design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It is bone, and like the bumper of a car, it's designed to take a blow. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Soon their insights allowed them to build their own working copy of a Japanese Type B machine—even though they had never seen one, or even any designs for one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All of the wedding gowns he designed for me went back to the Capitol, but there are some dresses I wore on the Victory Tour. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Within a year, Dad designed a scaffold that made him the fastest bricklayer on the job. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I had effectively mastered the tones and accent by obsessive listening at night to audio lessons designed for state department employees. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His vigilance extended even to the design of the fair’s official seal. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Billy designed this for our anniversary, after we lost Marcus. We both got one.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was her public face the mortician had designed with his dubious art. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So indeed was the entire mantelpiece around the fireplace in the living-room, a splendid design of fruit and foliage and intertwining branches carved in oak. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be more careful, Mike. The law was designed to save, not to destroy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was also a persuasive spokesman for African rights, becoming the founding president of the All-African Convention in 1936, which opposed legislation in Parliament designed to end the common voters’ roll in the Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years since the first grant was made, he explained, the cyclotron’s original design had been outrun by new technological possibilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z How does the design of the system help to ensure the creation of a massive undercaste? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yet in its very portrayal, and in the lavish detail paid to its design, there was a certain false glitz, as though the entire exhibit were under a limelight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Someone has drawn a design in the dust, with an index finger probably—it reminds me of the designs I used to make on the windows before I cleaned them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z What if the design committee had made a terrible choice? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When can we test our egg designs by dropping them out of a third-story window? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Renowned aerodynamicists Eastman Jacobs, John Stack, and John Becker had come to the laboratory as freshly minted junior engineers and were quickly allowed to design and conduct their own experiments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Permian was easily victorious with a 41-13 score, but if the outburst was designed to steer the players toward greater discipline, it didn’t work. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We'd gotten them from a Turkish wholesaler: blue branches spreading across a shiny white background, a design called the tree of life. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And in the center was a new set of nested boxes, inscribed with a splendid floral design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “If it is designedly done, they cannot be justified; but I have no idea of there being so much design in the world as some persons imagine.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Dressed in forest green, they were wearing helmets designed to fend off tiger attacks—metal shields covered the backs of their necks. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Next, I noticed that inside each figure was a distinct design. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It is, in fact, a downbeat speech, almost an informal State of the Union address, designed to undercut the revelry and prepare the country for years of more pain and struggle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The king's own brother had gone with him to help choose the design, the potboy said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “No, you aspire to design your outfit and be like me, your fashion hero,” says Cinna. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the end they’d designed something implausible, a town house of poured concrete with a glass facade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The bottom line: Oppenheimer now had to figure out a whole new design for an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Father nodded at the other building, a large one of plain, straight design. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Flags, with various designs of blue and gold, hung on poles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The last I heard, she’d branched over into designing her own Christmas cards. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices, and raise the volume of sales. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Branwell had expected his dad to have his design printed up and sent out to family and friends. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The newspaper was thin, ill-edited, and designed to circulate among rural, white Protestant readers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Considering the design of this new system of control, it is astonishing that so many people labeled criminals still manage to care for and feed their children, hold together marriages, obtain employment, and start businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But what Kurchatov really needed was specific information on bomb design, and there was only one place to get it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Suesetta and I helped design the flyers that we will hand out to people who are entering the store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In Asia, Japan’s leaders had designs of equal magnitude. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z She also learned how to etch her plates, adding delicacy to her designs. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Leo had designed the mess hall’s walls to show real-time scenes from Camp Half-Blood. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He successfully lobbied for Washington to head the Continental Army and personally selected Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence, two strategic decisions designed to assure Virginia’s support for the cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Raskin did not consider his later work in computer design at Apple to be a departure from music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z All these, however, were mere distractions compared to the single most important task on Burnham’s roster: the selection of architects to design the fair’s major buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At our meeting, we told him that we intended to organize a Youth League and a campaign of action designed to mobilize mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Newtonianism was thus only conceivable within a culture which had elaborated and become dependent upon the argument from design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think we would design a serum that makes people forget how to speak or walk?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Liddy refused to put the lead hunk into his shoe—the limp-inducing device was part of his cover, designed to distract passersby from his face, but it was just too painful. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Stanton’s cousin, Elizabeth Smith Miller, had designed the outfit in 1851, but after Amelia Bloomer published an article about “Turkish trousers” in the Lily, the “costume” was popularly referred to as “bloomers.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z These locks on my head, I designed it. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z The dance of qualitative research design: Metaphor, methodology, and meaning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He caught me idling, doodling the design of a rocket that could fly to the moon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My mind is already speeding, thinking of designs and patterns and colors. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The stone is dressed with circular furrows, a design that hasn’t been used for more than a hundred years. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hijabs are always brightly colored, with flowers or geometrical designs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Except for two sets of boot prints, one bearing a diamond pattern and the other a Cat’s Paw design, the slayers had left not a single clue. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Or bring them closer, either by design or accident? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The cat car was followed by eight Winnebago-sized vehicles, their sides covered with vinyl graphics designed to make them look like bookshelves on wheels. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But as it turned out, I was able to ask an expert, the person who had actually designed that very ramp and the killing machinery behind the blue door. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But if you looked closely, like Rishi was doing, it all began to coalesce into this design. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Campbell’s has even designed a microwavable soup that can be eaten in a car. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Today, professional linguists design writing systems for unwritten languages by the method of blueprint copying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We give them a questionnaire, like the Big Five Inventory, carefully designed to elicit telling responses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Stanton and her neighbor, Amelia Bloomer, copied the design. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But as Herman Miller tinkered with the design, coming up with new and better prototypes, and got people to overcome their qualms, the scores began to inch up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z So she concentrated on the decorative arts: flower patterns for embroidery and fabric design. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The guard unlocks the door and enters carrying a curiously designed knife with a tag hanging from it. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But they aren't designed to hold twenty days' worth of output. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had also—quite without meaning to—designed a beautiful economic experiment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I feel like I'm in an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption that someone else designed. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't designed for long trips, or even overnighters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Against that blank landscape, she and The Taker are in Mixed Media, and they are cutting images from design magazines. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She grumbled to herself all morning over her work while Tom and Samuel went over the boring equipment, sharpened bits, drew sketches of windmills new in design, and measured for timbers and redwood water tanks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Though the network was elegantly designed, there were not enough seats in the car pool to replace an entire city bus system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z White skulls had colorful sequin eyes and pretty designs on their faces. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The buildings, in fact, had been designed to maximize the salvage value of their components. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By the end of the meeting, design tasks were already being parceled out. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Everything he did was designed to distance her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Resin designed to seal a breach against that pressure? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He lives here, on twenty-six acres, about a ten-minute drive from campus—in an underground house that he designed a few years ago. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s black with a mother-of-pearl design of flowers and butterflies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z She sat down and put a ring on the table—a band of silver etched with a sword-and-torch design, like Reyna’s tattoo. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Words for him were like weapons designed to pierce the pages or explode above them in illuminating airbursts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They can design dream weapons that come to life in my hands, but they will never again brainwash me into the necessity of using them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s distinction between personal and political criticism was designed to change the dispute with Burr from an affair of honor to a political difference of opinion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But they had taken these beautiful rocks from deep within earth and they had laid them in a monstrous design, realizing destruction on a scale only they could have dreamed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She turned back the hem and noticed that the narrow lace edge of her slip was diamond-shaped in design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The image of it blocked the alpana designs that used to dazzle her mind with color. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z At first they were no more than pale gossamer-threads, so fine that they only twinkled fitfully where the Moon caught them, but steadily they grew broader and clearer, until their design could be guessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Never before in human history had farms been run this way, as machines designed to satisfy just one craving of buyers who could be thousands of miles away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And as Antain honed his skills and as his eye became clear and cunning and as his designs became more and more clever, so too did his renown increase. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z One of the NACAs great contributions to aerodynamics was a series of laminar flow airfoils, wing shapes designed to maximize the flow of smooth air around the wing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The challenges of managing the prison—which was designed to hold twelve hundred inmates but instead had three times that number—were overwhelming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I headed off to government, Ben to an elective about video game design. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The oldest surviving violin made according to the design we recognise today is generally agreed to be one constructed by Andrea Amati of Cremona for Charles IX, King of France, in 1564. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The buildings were freshly whitewashed, laid out in neat grids like the camp had been designed by a fussy math teacher. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Was Hall really an American double-agent, feeding false data to the Soviets in order to make them waste their time and resources on bomb designs that wouldn’t work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I would move them around, because if you put a little hole in the same spot of every rug, then it’s not a flaw anymore, it’s the design. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The railroad tracks bisected the park, perhaps not the optimal design. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It didn’t take long to design the final copy of our report. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Problem: The drills weren't designed for construction projects. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now called the Sugar Act, the law was designed to make sure the American colonists stopped smuggling and paid their sugar tax. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Here! ‘When a snowflake melted,’ he said, ‘that design was forever lost. Just that much beauty was gone.’ Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z But of all that Michell accomplished, nothing was more ingenious or had greater impact than a machine he designed and built for measuring the mass of the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On a pad of yellow paper, he came up with the design for the stands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He also could not seem to rule out the possibility for himself Over the course of many letters back and forth across the ocean, the two friends discussed God and design. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Looks like Watney finished the balloon addition to the trailer. It mostly uses the design we sent him." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Might not seem like much, but the math and design work took all day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “A builder. Like the men who designed the Twin Towers.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “But it does have quite a pedigree. It was designed by Hudson Clark.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Here is a system designed to eliminate pleasure for everyone involved. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The sun doesn’t shine much in Syracuse, so the art room is designed to get every bit of light it can. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Project Mercury was designed to do that, but again the Russians got there first, and put the first human being into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d noticed that some segments on Sesame Street elicited a lot of interaction from kids, where the segments asked for it,” says Daniel Anderson, who worked with Nickelodeon in designing Blue’s Clues. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the type to go along with his parents’ designs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was blue and white, with wave designs on the sides and a trident painted on the front. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Her navel, the central point of the design, is a natural cavity in the stone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The humidity inside the Hab is a lot higher than it was designed for, so the water reclaimer is constantly filtering it out of the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Well, I was reminded of that story while visiting Global Edge, an Indian software design firm in Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z There was a Joy Ice Cream cart and a man selling peanuts in narrow cones of paper cleverly designed to hold not more than eight or nine nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The entrance was designed to look like the facade of a castle, and you entered the maze through its open gates. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But they may work at decided cross-purposes to what they are designed for. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The rover heater is designed to heat air at one atmosphere, and the thin Martian air severely hampers its ability to work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw all around this forest hundreds of evenly scattered, identically sized ponds with trees sparsely distributed in a uniform way between them, the whole arrangement giving the unmistakable impression of following a design. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z From hooks along the wall hung her clothes, things she had made, some of them skirts and jackets rich with embroidered and appliqued designs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “My friend Adrian runs his own graphic design company,” Vanessa said, and pointed to a guy unpacking flyers. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The way this room has been designed, the heat from the fire above has turned some of the poison liquid into a gas,” reasoned Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z That route had been designed to be easy to follow, and had included a helicopter ride with the rangers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mom designs houses that have “clean lines” and “open floor plans.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z We even took our fathers’ razor blades and cut designs into the plastic to give each vehicle its own signature treading. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Every piece of equipment had to be machined to the most demanding specifications and designed for the heaviest duty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some design changes arose from Lawrence’s own indefatigable quest for the next big technical advance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had his own set of carpentry tools and a distinctly German design sensibility. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The men who had designed my truck had not anticipated the load I would carry. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “My sophomore year, I took set design when I couldn’t get into interpretive dance. I’m pretty good at building things.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Soon apartments originally designed for one family were being cut up into two- and three-family dwellings, and blacks, who had been confined previously to the West Forties, were allowed to move in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Even in the dark, she thought she could tell one color from another, because she knew its pattern and design so well. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Water was splashed in our eyes by a strange piece of equipment designed to do just that, but it didn’t seem to help. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was negative air pressure, designed to keep hot agents from drifting outward. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lessons had been designed by Mr. Curtain himself, and when all of them had been gotten through, they were repeated from the beginning. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The beautiful design and the vast open space reminded her of Mount Olympus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The pure gold surface has been designed to resemble the woven horn that we fill at harvest, so there are little ridges and seams to get a decent hold on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She has navy designs down each of her arms. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It had to be a stratagem, designed to lull Volantene suspicions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “In fact, looking at the beads and design, this doesn’t look Spokane at all. I don’t recognize the work. Does anybody here recognize the beadwork?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 Rather, from its inception, it was designed to be a containment zone. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The walls were papered with a design of pale vertical strips, like a boys pajamas, which heightened the sense of confinement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer provided it, warning that a multitude of theoretical and technical questions still remained unresolved; therefore, design work should be initiated immediately if the weapon were to be ready in time to influence the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I know you designed the attack simulation. I knowyou’re responsible for my parents’ deaths—for my mothers death. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Even a master architect would have had trouble designing such a structure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both contained thorough reports on atomic bomb design. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mehndi, a design made from the powdered leaves of the henna plant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “It’s very hard to get somebody to sit on something that doesn’t look right,” says Rob Harvey, who was Herman Miller’s senior vice president of research and design at the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In Peking, in the 1670s, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Jesuit astronomer, was able to build instruments based on his designs without ever having seen Brahe’s originals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The superbomb can be designed to be either relatively clean or very dirty,” Lapp wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And today Livotny & Associates is a growing firm of twelve full-time people, which specializes in thematic restaurant design, what I still like to call “theme eating.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "The rover's designed to handle a roll," Bruce explained. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The sixty-inch machine laid easy claim to being the last word in cyclotron design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The outside entrance was designed to look like a bistro from a small Italian village. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The fundamental structural unit, on which the whole design is based, is the arch. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The tests we took were designed to determine our eligibility for Mensa, an international association for those with IQs of 132 or higher. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At fifty-seven, with her short, squat figure and intimidating hairnet, my grandmother was perfectly designed for blocking people’s paths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z All the tiles had similar blue borders with little designs painted in the centre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Johnson is good with tools from her years of overseeing set design, and plans how to drape the curtains and pavilions that we're sewing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My mother walks through the snitch box—a metal detector designed to make sure no one is bringing guns on the island. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A person could compose music, design a doghouse, and...something more, something even better. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was designed to house low-risk inmates in dormitory complexes rather than cell blocks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Everything possible was carved with designs, even the stanchions where the goats put their heads and the stalls in the little barn. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The Apollo machinery was being designed with two separate spacecraft, which would rendezvous and dock with each other while in orbit around the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucked behind that, it’s filled with all his original designs. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Dewey had imagined that with the deaths of Smith and Hickock, he would experience a sense of climax, release, of a design justly completed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Later they showed me magazines designed exclusively for mobile dwellers, stories and poems and hints for successful mobile living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard was the son of a blacksmith, but he had no interest in designing load-bearing machines such as watermills or windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z More than anything lately, Max likes to fold complicated designs of paper airplanes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s this design for a dovecote that Dad and I have been looking at in our design book for years, but we never had the guts to try it before. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In the end, he could not believe that the world was all God’s design. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One lone spider remained atop the jar, its delicate legs blending in to the thin geometric designs that crisscrossed their way down the painted sides. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Structurally the car was sound, but its walls, windows, and doors had been designed merely to discourage attempts at self-destruction, not to resist a human pile driver. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Washington designed his intelligence system so that he could run his own agents, as he had run Honeyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But soon the Klan evolved into a multistate terrorist organization designed to frighten and kill emancipated slaves. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I dreamed of being an architect, designing the most beautiful bridges in the world. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They rowed in a much smaller shell, just fifty-two feet long, with short oars and small blades, all designed to accommodate their smaller bodies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Rowan had never been an exceptional student—but that was by design. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Greater sea creatures glided past, their bodies decorated with pulsating, magical designs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I took a few sheets of paper from my desk and sat down to design the most fitting, most luxurious mausoleum in the world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If the best antidote for poisons is dilution, what better dilution than a chemical designed to add water and oxygen constantly for hundreds of years? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Today, the room was abuzz with activity as technicians sealed Iris into the specially designed shipping container. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Though untrained as an architect, he came up with a design that was simple, memorable, and archetypal. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Often it was softball, but sometimes it was a made-up sport designed to at least keep us active for the last hour and a bit of the school week. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The animals and plants on Earth and the structures of our buildings are all evolved or designed for 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That boat design represented a major advance over the simple dugout canoes prevalent among traditional peoples living on inland waterways throughout the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A large portion of the building’s north end collapsed, which in turn caused the failure of an elevated gallery designed to ring the interior of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One is that music followed its own timetable, a timetable that does not fit neatly with developments in art, architecture, design, philosophy and science. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Looking at the designs based on Gale’s traps. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Strange and wonderful I thought it that the designs of Mordor should be overthrown by such wraiths of fear and darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The lunar receiving laboratory was designed to subject us and our moon rocks to every possible test to make sure we had not brought any germs back from the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels more designed to keep us in lockdown than to decimate 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She was irresistible, with a dress she had designed and one of the long shad-vertebra necklaces that she herself had made. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had seen people carrying kids in specially designed backpacks, but his family didn’t have money for that sort of stuff. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A few years later the Japanese company incorporated elements of Lawrence’s design into one of the most successful color TV technologies in history, a product it named Trinitron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The other teams were too busy debating the design of their paper airplanes to pay them much attention. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But the creative challenge is much higher up the food chain—in computing labs, medical research, artificial intelligence, advanced programming for institutions like NASA, and Web design and development—all requiring higher education. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His design called for “a hundred or so pieces,” he explained, “which had to fit together to within a precision of a few thousandths of an inch.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was probably a turncoat—a programmer who intentionally coded back doors and security holes into a system he designed, so that he could later sell them on the black market. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I just finished a draft essay about my career dream: a fair-trade company that invests in and designs eco-friendly clothes sewn and embroidered by Indian village women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even pretties, whose bodies were perfectly balanced, designed for elegance in every kind of clothing, moved with such effortless control Tally deliberately turned her eyes away from him. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The sword wasn’t designed for that, but the Celestial bronze blade sliced through the chains suspending the hydra. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His penmanship was a sure indicator that he would have had a future at MIT, the minuscule mechanical pencil marks designed to maximize the amount of cryptic data a genius could record on one page. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Unlike most large Greek towns, which grew gradually and haphazardly, Alexandria had commissioned planners, Deinocrates of Rhodes and Crates of Olynthus, to push through designs for her architecture and waterworks, respectively. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z —Fortune Kether: an artist—renowned publicly for his frescoes and privately for the catapults and siege engines he designed for skirmishing kings. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I studied the people and saw the worry carved into their faces like a carefully designed mask. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Orpheus, a professional architect, remodeled their house, designed and built a separate studio for Marian, and dammed up a small brook to make a swimming hole. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Ifemelu began then to visualize her new blog, a blue-and-white design, and, on the masthead, an aerial shot of a Lagos scene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The outline of the design was first etched lightly into the leather-hard clay with the finest point. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Whether Blanche died as a result of treatments designed to cure an illness that would eventually become known as schizophrenia or from suicide or another cause altogether was known only to her doctors and family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He loathed the clatter and smoke of steam launches; he wanted electric boats designed specifically for the park, with emphasis on graceful lines and silent operation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This is our big shot, guys. It’s like they designed the Excelsior for a Hibbleflitt!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The Full-Scale Tunnel, the linchpin of the lab’s World War II drag cleanup work, continued to test everything from low-speed aircraft designed with delta wings to helicopters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Lawrence and the Rad Lab, he observed waspishly, had “absolutely no experience in reactor design or operation.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was our highest rocket yet, but it wasn’t what my nozzle design had predicted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Susan Calvin did not allow herself to relax, despite the designed comfort of the chair she sat in. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z On their picnic table, he’d already laid out all our materials and drawn up detailed, realistic diagrams for Twig’s top two designs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Legislation designed to preserve white supremacy entrenches this notion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Most such tailor-made systems modify existing alphabets, though some instead design syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, he worked out a design for a large-scale calutron plant employing an array of vacuum tanks arranged in large ovals between the poles of huge electromagnets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When I was majoring in Asian-American studies, I took only one relevant course, in theater set design, for a college production of Madama Butterfly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After a time I move to the art department of a publishing company, where I design book covers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They can twist me into a slave for their hateful and perverted designs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But her resolve melted when she saw him before her, seated there beside her in the little garden, as if a designing Providence had led him into her path. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The costumes were especially designed to hide her disfigured right arm. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If the segregation laws were designed to reduce friction by keeping the races apart, in practice they had the opposite effect. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When glazed and fired, the slip blurred or ran, making the edges of the design indistinct rather than crisp and clear. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He does consulting work on various matters, including the design of pressurized hot zones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone in the class saw a flyer announcing a national competition to design a Vietnam veterans’ memorial. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was pocked with multiple points of entry—vents, chimneys, small glass domes designed to let in the light. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Essentially, the resolution was designed to grant the president the power to order further attacks in Vietnam without asking Congress for a formal declaration of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Hey, man. Interested in a degree in art or graphic design?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “A prank designed to lull the administration into a false sense of security,” the Colonel answered, annoyed by the distraction. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Before there were computers in Silicon Valley, before the land gave way to industrial design, there was fruit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We also talked to the engineers who had designed the spacecraft, and exchanged ideas with them for improvements. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a silver skull ring, a chain for a belt, and a black T-shirt with skull designs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The first feature consists of pottery designs, which are aesthetic features of no economic significance but which do let archaeologists immediately recognize an early Austronesian site. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1937 they sent up an emergency flare for help; this brought them Laslett, one of Lawrence’s most valued assistants, who advised them that their magnet had been ill designed and misengineered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I inspected its nozzle and thought it crudely designed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As a piece of design, the Guggenheim Museum is remarkably willful. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Welles insisted on controlling set design, costumes, and props, as well as directing and acting. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Before he left for his month at The Lovely Condominium, Branwell had shown me a birth announcement that he had designed. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m face to face with a bed like a birthday cake topped with a fluffy icing-pink blanket with a white llama design, and two poufy pillows, all facing a glorious TV. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, it was a prison designed by our oppressors, but it also gave us a sense of self-determination and control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the evenings, the city’s only public high school taught laboratory employees everything from sewing to dynamic model design, bookkeeping to machine shop theory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And the beauty of it was, since they were designed for working on toys, they were nearly all miniature, easily small enough for us to handle. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z An alteration in calutron design that seemed trivial in Berkeley could set off an avalanche of costly and time-consuming changes downstream at Oak Ridge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And it can take the fear and boredom out of grammar, because it’s always more inviting to master a system when you have a clear idea of what it is designed to accomplish. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Molly fingers the never-used baby blanket, its basket- weave design still vivid, the stitches intricately pristine. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Once in possession of this information, American engineers were able to anticipate the Soviets' capabilities and to design planes and missiles that could outmaneuver and outmatch them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Another time, Langan took an IQ test specially designed for people too smart for ordinary IQ tests. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It is a question she poses to him often, as they leaf together through apartments featured in Architectural Digest or the design section of the Times magazine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’d be tricky. We’d have to design the detonation sequence with great care, and once it’s in motion, we couldn’t hope to control it.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It was their job to prepare the uranium for the bomb being designed at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hank unfolded one, the mock-up for the front of the One Drum shirt—a simple Rolland Rocks in the same font as our award-winning Stokum Sucks design. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A choice made by the manufacturer when the computer was designed determines this, and nothing can change it now. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In addition, she remade his ears, stripping them of the few pieces of fur that remained and designing him a new pair. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z These cabinets were similar in design to the safety cabinets that are used for handling nuclear-bomb parts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Which is funny, because whoever designed the list forgot to mention drinking and sex—which would’ve been the most accurate response for most of our student body. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The next step was to do the equations for the design of the De Laval nozzle, and privately I quaked at the thought of attempting them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By her design his quest for news about his father’s wandering would bring him fame in the world’s eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course not, Sheriff. Jane is terrible with a rifle. I was thinking more along the lines of the sickle, a weapon designed specifically for the close-combat techniques of an Attendant.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “What a creative design,” the first one said. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For the Rad Lab, the most familiar design elements were the magnets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The research had application to the design of missiles, of great interest as the United States sought to gain every possible military and technological advantage over the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When Newton performed his experiment in 1666 it was probably deliberately designed to produce the elongated spectrum, an effect he describes as if were a complete surprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ladder wouldn’t win any design awards, but it might get her to the bottom of the cavern safely. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I can think of several creatures that seem designed for this function, if you will accept a microbestiary, and if you are looking for metaphors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of her pieces are patchwork quilts, in inventive designs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The hoses that connected the rover and trailer were designed well, and released without breaking. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes travel along the black lines of a gridlike design. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The wallpaper was floral too—a posy of three roses alternating with a snowflake design. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Tonight we’ll pick our special cloth from the trunks and get going on a design for all of our dresses and for Conrad’s shirt.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Swann assigned Lawrence to design an experiment to investigate the effect, acknowledging cheerfully that previous efforts all had yielded inconclusive results. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You could never imagine the designs already in motion. I have been locked away for years, yes, but not without means of communicating with the outside world.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It was a wooden box designed to look like a raven. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Delicate silver and gold threads unraveled and wove themselves into the fragile wings of the frozen mariposas, converting the tiny creatures into magical designs stitched meticulously into the bodice of La Llorona’s gown. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “We were . . . smart. And I think it might be part of the Variables. But most importantly, Teresa and I have a . . . gift that made us very valuable as they designed and built this place.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I’d be wearing a beautiful long dress, something made especially for me, copied from one of the latest Parisian designs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z His motivation for this work came from his interest in astronomy, where the need for accurate timekeeping had long been obvious, but was becoming more pressing as more accurate observing instruments were designed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z After the Voting Rights Act passed, court clerks and judges still kept the jury rolls mostly white through various tactics designed to undermine the law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was designed for pushing on, ever on, not for dipping in and out of. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I carried the design to Miss Riley, looking for even more approval. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Lots of neighborhoods have cookie-cutter houses, because it’s cheaper for builders to just use the same design over and over again. It doesn’t mean anything.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Gay somehow knew that I had never recovered my dolls from Mrs. Moss and gave me a doll designed to look like me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z A vague memory started tugging at her—the way Reyna brushed her hair behind her ear, the silver ring she wore with the torch and sword design. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Physicists could certainly design more powerful atomic bombs, he argued. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With their recommendation, most of the redecorated locker room stays as we designed it, tweaked only to comply with the fire code and the janitor's needs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some had feathers or shells woven into the designs. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The Bifrost track was another stand-alone simulation, one of several hundred track designs stored on my console’s hard drive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z One day, he urged his squad to design a distinctive banner that would stand out among the others, even though it was breaking the rules. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For the reception he changes into a suit, she into a red Banarasi gown with spaghetti straps, something she’d designed herself and had made by a seamstress friend. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The work was designed and done by Michelangelo himself. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If Jeanine designed this, it is probably a test of intelligence or logic, which means I will have to think clearly, which means I will have to calm down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Their broad, short wings were designed to speed them in and around trees and branches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Breathing in that familiar tang of ink and damp paper, she practiced the time-consuming process of copper engraving, which could transform one design into many prints. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The nets were designed to leach condensation out of the cool night air, and were an important supplementary source of water in the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The careful design was marred occasionally by rare but keen sexual cravings. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The firm is entering a competition, submitting designs for a new five-star hotel to be built in Miami. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These fellows whose bodies seemed—what had one of my teachers said of me?—"You're like one of these African sculptures, distorted in the interest of a design." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most Americans I am no lover of cops, and the consistent investigation of city forces for bribery, brutality, and a long and picturesque list of malfeasances is not designed to reassure me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Camp was a combined outing for grades five and seven, designed so us new kids could spend time with some of the older boys. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I went up to people and asked if they knew anything that I should know, because sometimes Dad would design Reconnaissance Expeditions so I would have to talk to people. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The first couple of days we spent in a classroom, studying an Air Force manual designed to help pilots who made emergency landings in strange places. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess there’s nothing better to do than design a new wardrobe for Gulmina the Glamorous.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He arranged the fruits with an eye for color and design. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was carefully designed, like someone had spent a lot of time thinking about it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the entryway was a design with markings on it that looked like a shield. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The work was neither designed nor done by Michelangelo. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A new shape for a teapot, a new inscribed design—these were things that the potters refused to reveal until a piece was ready to show to a buyer. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Soon the struggle for control distilled to a personal conflict between Burnham and Davis, its primary battlefield a disagreement over who should control the artistic design of exhibits and interiors. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The words are designed to provoke a reaction—and they do. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z "I'm sure it was hard to trim down a ship that's already designed to be as light as possible," Venkat said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The blind was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights—mostly by military representatives—but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting goods multinational. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The Doors of Death seemed like a personal insult, designed to remind him of everything he couldn’t have. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “We designed them that way so that the PSFs wouldn’t be able to accidentally pick up on a signal being transmitted from them. I promise, you’re in control here, Ruby.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Only hard wooden floors and an intricate, diamond-shaped design in the middle of the ceiling. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The log-out sequence was designed this way to prevent avatars from using it as an easy way to escape a fight. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I looked into the design of their faces, hardly a one that was unlike someone I'd known down South. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her parents are “amicably separated,” but he sends these huge checks once a month, and Twig’s mom makes a lot of money, too, designing apps that tell pretty people what clothes they should wear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Only a week earlier he had found himself in the humiliating position of having to ride in a wheelchair through Union Station in Washington, D.C., the station he had designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And this bed had a comforter covered in weird red flowers, which would be about the last comforter design in the world that Finn would have chosen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z What the apprentice or art student learns are skills and techniques: established ways of drawing, painting, carving, designing—established ways of seeing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It is being designed so that four people will be able to stay aboard for long periods of time, working in a laboratory, exploring ideas that involve gravity or the lack of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no evidence that anyone has been here in a long time except for the smell, that sickly sour stench designed to keep the living from the dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Gathering the spotted cattle was only one color of sand falling from the fingertips; the design was still growing, but already long ago it had encircled him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The great colleges and universities were designed to provide for mobility, to seek out talent,” said Anthony W. Marx, president of Amherst College. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It contains active definitions for musical terms; music lessons regarding the meanings of musical notation; and exercises designed to further understanding of musical notes, chords, and many other musical aspects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I found myself unconsciously urging the spacecraft at least to stand on its tiptoes, as if this laboratory, designed for immobility, were perversely refusing to manage even a little hop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time he passed the mantel he winced, dreading the raised eyebrows of his guests as they viewed the flickering ceramic saints, the salt and pepper shakers designed to resemble Mary and Joseph. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Because the design of space missions is finalized many years before launch, and because of Vishniac’s death, the results of his Antarctic experiments did not influence the Viking design for seeking Martian life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A new man had joined the group, Augustus St. Gaudens, one of America’s best-known sculptors, whom Charles McKim had invited to help evaluate the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Actually, some of the announcements are quite cool, even if the designs are boring. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There are so many modern designs for easy living. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Pens and pencils packed a dozen each in flimsy cardboard packaging with retro fonts and design. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They say he’s got fat peacocks strutting around in a courtyard, protected by high walls, pecking up grain from silver plates inscribed with Moorish designs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To him, Harrison represented the old Chicago of filth, smoke, and vice, everything the fair was designed to repudiate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 Her design was attacked as too simplistic and Asian, too modern. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Tacked on the corkboard walls and occupying several computer screens are other designs of some sort. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It didn’t entirely disappear, but it gradually submerged, as semblances of order returned and our pattern of life assumed its new design. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Archives was filled with little rooms like this, reading holes, designed to give members of the Arcanum a place to sit privately and study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The suit is designed for eight hours of use. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Previously, all spacecraft had been designed to fly only once and then be retired to a museum. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom designs greeting cards and my dad works in health insurance. What about yours?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The seat was comfier than a leather recliner, and the dashboard looked like it had been designed by NASA. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z On the day of the conversation about intelligent design, Dr. Atchley walked and thought, and later that night, he crafted an email back to his student in which he quoted Hebrews 11:1. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Even as Gandhi was working for Balasumdaram, the South Africans passed a new law designed to make life difficult for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Fathers own improvement on the Wrights’ original design was to put four wheels on the bottom of the frame’s center. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The leaves are harvested with a machine that Earthbound designed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Something whirred and ticktocked at an uneven pace, and Emily finally zeroed in on a glass case with a structure inside designed to keep marbles perpetually moving up in buckets, down slides, and around sprockets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Her bedspread has a cool design of huge red and orange poppy flowers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Over that summer, the Rad Lab continued to improve the calutron design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He brought home some more tin and left the designing up to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Right before I’d gone on my first quest, Luke had given me a gift, too— magic shoes that had been designed to drag me to my death. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m a person on legs, which are designed for this purpose. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Take a flyer, please. My daughter designed it,” she tells everyone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Prison is designed to break one’s spirit and destroy one’s resolve. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On first seeing the broken ride, I'd assumed it was designed to pause at frequent intervals, allowing those onboard to feel the full effect of their discomfort. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes we raced so low that our feet broke the surface of the water and we plowed great white wakes behind us, and we would end the race by tracing designs in the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Father built controls for the vertical rudders and the warping mechanism of the wing following the design of the Wrights. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Groves’s order to freeze the calutron design was honored only in the most general terms, and then only for the very first units to be shipped for installation at Oak Ridge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Who or what had traced this restless design in him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The new jack, never used and bright with factory paint, was stiff and unruly, and it was not designed for the overhang of Rocinante. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The quandary deepened in mid-1950, when it became evident that the solution to a vexing technical issue in hydrogen bomb design rested on the collaborative work of Teller and the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Navigation instruments were being designed, but no one really knew how accurate they would be, and they had to be very, very precise. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was years before we realized that his unwieldy rules were designed to protect us from the evil possibilities of the mean-spirited world around us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This experiment is known as ‘Pascal’s barrel’, although there is no evidence he conducted it himself; he did conduct experiments designed to illustrate the principle involved, but that had already been described by Mersenne. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I hated to disappoint Quentin, but we had no way to build his design with our limited resources. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On all my favorite design shows there’s an expert who guides the DIYers. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Fixers were designed to replicate under strictly regulated conditions, but the damaged Fixer replicates uncontrollably, at an exponential rate, using whatever materials are at hand. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then, after the sturdy White Stag, come the breezy, revealing Faded Glory, No Boundaries, and Jordache collections, designed for the younger and thinner crowd. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was slightly complicated by the fact that the bowls were designed to curve as they rolled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z These triumphant landings were due in considerable part to the great skill invested in their design, fabrication and testing, and to the abilities of the spacecraft controllers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean ... I can design whatever I want?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Every major airline now has what is called “Crew Resource Management” training, which is designed to teach junior crew members how to communicate clearly and assertively. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I had no designs on books and such. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Our project this term was to design and make some sort of a scraper. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It looked incongruous, floating there in the water, so odd in its shape compared to the sleek, slippery design of fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The Mike device was based on the Teller-Ulam design and built by Los Alamos; Livermore, which at that time was fully engaged in “simply coming into being,” played no role whatsoever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It simply lingered, motionless except for the designs on its skin and its round eyes floating on their stalks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For all his grand designs, Artemis had been a mere mortal in the end. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Her eyes pass over stacks of Nikhil’s design magazines, thick books on Gropius and Le Corbusier. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some rugs from Isfahan even have silk and gold thread in the paisley designs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Descriptivists believe that the rules of correct usage are nothing more than the secret handshake of the ruling class, designed to keep the masses in their place. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The original Sesame Street was anti-narrative: it was, by design, an unconnected collection of sketches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Minus the color, it was identical to the design on their mehndi maps. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He avowed that even if we proved that guerrilla war had not been approved and our policy of sabotage was designed not to sacrifice human life, the state could still impose the death sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the argument from design, it was fundamentally different from the traditional Thomistic argument, which held that the universe was imbued with purpose, and that the ultimate purpose was to be found in God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Was she mistaken, or was the book design on her hand glowing? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Advertising matters,” I told Papi, and I designed the whole thing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As usual, I'm working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The third was etched with the design of a maze, and the last had an image of a building —maybe the Empire State Building?—with names Percy didn’t recognize engraved around it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Unarmed and defenseless against enemy fighters or antiaircraft fire, the U-2 was purpose-built to house powerful cameras designed for the CIA by Edwin Land, the founder of the Polaroid Corporation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in Greek combat armor—sandals, kilt, and greaves, a breastplate decorated with elaborate sea monster designs—and everything he wore was gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But—her version of the Adams internal ricochet—“the Hand of Providence ought to be attended to, and what is designed, cheerfully submitted to.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It will be the working base for an action program designed to eliminate the political oppression, the economic exploitation, and the social degradation suffered daily by twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z From here on it’s like a Russian nesting doll, designed that way by Peck. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z 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 “They were designed to hold captured wights, hardened criminals, and the dangerously insane,” Millard explained. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But then Kin reworked it and added an embedded iron design: a little goat on the right side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A little vase that had designs cut in it was in front. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He began to suspect even old Butterbur’s fat face of concealing dark designs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His speed in designing and building the apparatus was more impressive than the results he obtained, which matched Swann’s expectations and therefore advanced science by a tiny increment, if at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Phineas was resting his cast, which was a considerably smaller one now, on the desk and thoughtfully pressing designs into it with a pocket knife. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Now, without instruction or practice, without hesitancy, her fingers felt the way to twist and weave and stitch the special threads together to create designs rich and explosive with color. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d hoped to spend all of science class today doodling up ideas for the new designs, and dreaming up travel plans for Mom and me—but Mr. Neely surprised us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We can drop the egg designs from my window,” Dari explained as Twig and I walked over to the window to peer out at his setup. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He balances the entire design on that one specific word Mr. Barris used. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What they want is for me to truly take on the role they designed for me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z While I was in my room designing the logo on the computer, Stan completely chatted up my dad, convincing him to get Kalbro to donate two hundred dollars to the cause. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The app is designed mainly for adults, not teens. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If he read him, Newcomen had only to put two and two together in exactly the way Papin was to go on to do to have the basic design of a steam engine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Besides the countersunk nozzle, Mr. Caton showed off his new design for attaching the fins to the casement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The hideous gray uniform made her look much younger than she really was, despite the fact that her womanly curves showed through the design. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I strapped on my new book bag—navy with violet swirl designs. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He joined her and made designs in the fire while she warmed herself. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Tacked to the back of the door was a design that looked Chinese. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He ejected them with celerity, and his servants watched with some satisfaction as these lords of the leaf stalked back out to their chaises, disappointed in their designs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Off the big chamber and one step down was a smaller room designed as a dressing room. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For hours I’d listened to her tell stories about designing and testing spacecrafts and satellites. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Seeing her in my wedding sari, her eyes darkened with kohl, her cheeks and lips rouged, and designs painted on her forehead, was like seeing myself again as I had been almost three years before. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Already he was polishing a few carefully worded accusations designed to reduce his mother to repentance or, at least, confusion. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What matters most to researchers, though, is not the design but the two curious marks between the cadaver's feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The design was so elegant, so adept at exploiting the strength of thin strands of steel, that the wheel appeared incapable of withstanding the stresses placed upon it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She designed the silks that would become legendary: crimson-and-white cap, white sleeves, and a crimson vest emblazoned with the Ridgewood cattle brand, an H inside a large white triangle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Until that day, Most sincerely, Stephen Hawking I stayed up pretty late designing jewelry that night. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton did not design his system, as his critics frequently claimed, primarily to enrich the commercial elite. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I don’t want to seem nosy, but the curving design on the front of the mezuzah is fascinating. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was the kind of tense, held-breath expression designed to conceal some strong emotion, like anger, or revulsion, or even fear. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He thought of her only as the person win had robbed him, and, since robbers are deceitful, designing, and heartless people, he thought of her as-these. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In her notebook, where she designs her dot games, she had three rows of tiny Post-its with the names of all the boys in the grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Twig had drawn a whole stack of egg drop designs and had started an Operation Egg binder, which contained all her notes and was covered in beetle stickers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Have you come up with a design yet?” he asked. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was so named because it was designed to shuttle back and forth between Cape Canaveral and earth orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, I was certain its body of knowledge concerning plane curves, angles, and polygons would help me design my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was an interesting design and seemed likely to work, although he did observe to himself that the shape of the kiln seemed unsuited to the task of bending glass. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The radical design makes it clear that Wright had completely rethought the purpose of an art museum. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, Lin flew to Washington, DC, for a press conference to announce the winning design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Arguing that Y-12 was the most reliable option for meeting the new specifications, he pressed for a major expansion of the plant, encompassing additional Betas and a new, more productive Alpha design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Today she was dressed in tattered jeans, worn-out sneakers, and a white tank top with pink Hello Kitty designs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To Cartesians, Newton’s theory of gravity made no sense; but in England, where Cartesianism had never been adopted without reservations, and where arguments from design were widely accepted, resistance to the theory was much weaker. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z White scoured this randomness for a hidden design. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sound team records me reading from my cards in a chirpy voice so they can insert it later, then I’m tossed out of the room so they can film my/Cinna’s designs in peace. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Before Owen, museums were designed primarily for the use and edification of the elite, and even then it was difficult to gain access. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One thing was clear: Absolutely everybody in the city was supposed to be dead, regardless of what they were, and that anybody that moved in it represented a flaw in the design. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We chose Miami because the city’s skyscrapers are designed to withstand hurricanes, not earthquakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Now more than ever she could have used the Thunderhead’s AI guidance as she browsed through its data files, because the worldwide public camera system seemed designed to thwart her efforts. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Raise grabs a bottle of glue and swirls a design on a red velvet pillow. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The rims are carved with designs of birds and animals, whereas the medallions in the spokes are carved with women in luxurious poses, largely erotic in nature.”’ Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I made a quick inspection of their displays and was relieved to find that none of them approached the sophistication of the BCMA’s designs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After Washington, Lawrence and Alvarez planned to fly to Ottawa for a look at the Canadian government’s heavy-water reactor in nearby Chalk River, a design they thought might be adapted for tritium production. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The book described the phenomenon that dictated rocket-nozzle design, and Quentin and I talked about it until we were certain we understood it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, a number of established firms designed patterns and prepared the fabric, and then the complicated stitching and pressing and button attaching were all sent out to small contractors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It would certainly be big enough, but it just isn't designed to hold in that much pressure. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I worked for a long time on my new design and laid the rake behind the wash pot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Quentin and I are going to design a sophisticated nozzle, and we need an advanced propellant to go along with it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This sound was stripped of the multiple layers and intricacies of counterpoint, and designed for clarity and instant sensual impact. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He’d designed the hull to resonate every few seconds, sending waves through the Mist and alerting Festus to any nearby monsters, but it only worked in one mode at a time: water or air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They were “circular meccas of neon,” in the words of drive- in historian Michael Witzel, designed to be easily spotted from the road. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z She had long frizzy hair, a plain white blouse, and jeans covered with hand-drawn ink designs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She spied his design and pulled away her wrist. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was too feminine—a woman’s room designed by a man—and overdone, too feminine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Most famously, she improved on the design of the “hot comb,” a device for straightening hair. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z One time the factory owner selected my father to attend an advanced course in tool design in the nearby city of Białystok. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But she liked the design, after all, and they arranged to have it silk screened on five hundred red T-shirts, which they shipped north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The dish, one of the most distinctive landmarks on the Fairbanks skyline, had been erected to collect data from satellites equipped with synthetic aperture radar of Walt McCandless’s design. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been designed that way on purpose. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This was Lin Nai-Nai’s own design: a picture of a mountain, a thin black line climbing up to a scallop of clouds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He described as much as he knew about the organization of the Manhattan Project, saying he’d heard that the bomb design was happening at a secret site somewhere in New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had thought to design the roofs to resist such extreme loading from snow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The lab really had an engineering staff of one: Don Cooksey, who was unquestionably skilled but who found it a challenge to maintain the technical standards of cyclotron design all by himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It followed the last design, except it was six inches longer—a three-footer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lapham’s selections for his boys were sometimes designed to point out some fault in a member of his household, especially in the reader. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I owe a lot of that to the awesome book cover Dylan commissioned Samantha to design last Christmas. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He saw this as proof of God’s pleasure in mathematical symmetry showing in his design of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Sullivan, never easy on his peers, became furious with one of the firm’s junior architects when he discovered the man had been using his free time to design houses for clients of his own. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The preserved heads apparently were “spirit traps” designed to keep the spirit in its original dwelling place. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The rubakha had red embroidery around the sleeve ends and the collar, matching the design of black embroidery on the sarafan’s hem. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Others warned Smith that War Admiral’s bad works may have been designed to fool Smith about the colt’s condition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, the RECOs were not designed to be shut down so easily. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Or Baby Kochamma’s conversation that was designed to exclude Ammu and her children, to inform them of their place in the scheme of things. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock was designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens - who incidentally had published essays on the physics of music - and built by clockmaker Salomon Coster. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the 1930s and early 1940s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began to roll out the New Deal—a massive public works and investment program designed to lift the nation out of a severe depression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My backpack, of blessed memory, could fit four schoolbooks in it, but the Kellner & Newton Messenger Bag was clearly designed for product placement and not storage capacity. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Since being tapped by Arthur Compton in June to supervise the theoretical work on bomb design, Oppie had been working out of his Berkeley office with a small group of trusted colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 “It is a number of procedures designed to uncover truths. I believe it is pronounced ‘tor-turé.’ Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Now the henna artist was swirling intricate designs of flowers and birds onto her feet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I hadn’t realized how easily she had gotten what she wanted from me: my father’s design for the new junior high. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Suburban homemakers could have been placed under surveillance and subjected to undercover operations designed to catch them violating laws regulating the use and sale of prescription “uppers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They kept tinkering with their design until, finally, Roz had herself a wooden foot that she could rely on. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It was tradition at Trinity to toss star players against the freshmen and to build plays designed to stop the stars. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers for designing any structures that might be needed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The reward was a design that could be printed and bound into books, allowing one person’s discoveries to be seen by all. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was clear they’d been designed to go there; they fit snugly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It is evidently designed for the homeostasis of the earth. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He never taught me that they made no judgments about what people believed, but designed things for them within the confines of those beliefs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z To enter a mind and show it at work, or being worked on, and to do this within a symmetrical design—this would be an artistic triumph. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He struck a good balance—I was playing on the team opposite English most of the time, and even though Fist was designed for him, he didn’t call it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They are not designed to kill, but to frighten animals and people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All doormen, for example, and all policemen have by now, for me, become exactly the same, and my style with them is designed simply to intimidate them before they can intimidate me. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “This is such a coincidence, because I am completely addicted to the home and design channels and I’ve heard about these itty-bitty homes. Although where do you go to the bathroom?” she says, cackling. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Some of the bricks on the back wall of the auditorium are a darker shade, almost brown, and they form this double helix design. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The two converging lines on the shoulder, indicating a dart or wound, were not part of the original design. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After all that designing, measuring, cutting, sewing, pinning, stapling, gluing, and Velcro-ing? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Many of the shards were of significant size—two, three inches across—large enough so that the patterns and beauty of the design could still be easily seen and appreciated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “There’s a successful architect who designs skyscrapers by using his feet to type, just like Aven does on her computer, and a woman who paints beautiful artwork that sells for quite a bit of money.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A master engraver expertly carves his designs onto a polished copper plate using an engraving tool called a burin. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Why, it’s beautiful, Rucker! I never noticed before! Goodness, it would make a lovely design for dress goods. But...what’s the point?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z My emotional life accords with the designs, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They open to rooms with even more elaborate designs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z As Lawrence machines went, this one was a fiasco, not even yielding substantial or unique knowledge to advance the science of accelerator design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The classrooms were open concept and thoughtfully designed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Nazis call these leaflets enemy propaganda, designed to undermine German morale. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The new invitation, designed by Ashima, the English translation lettered by Gogol, is the only thing that isn’t a leftover. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The old picture of the hippies—the first place I had seen the strange butterfly design. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He forged a religion designed to last, not predigested obsolescence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They could kill easily if provoked to anger, but not by design, which explained why they could not “mob kill” anyone. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One attachment was a miniature magnifying glass, with which she began to burn a design onto a dry branch, and it was that which set her thinking about Shadows. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He also had a thin, scraggly beard that seemed designed to proclaim him older than he was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The community theater downtown was designed with the pageant in mind, which means the women’s dressing room is four times the size of the men’s. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I thought there were supposed to be similarities beyond the design of one house and people with the same names being in both worlds. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z To intercept Hermes, it'll have to reach escape velocity, but it was only designed to get to orbit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, again led by Paul and Burns, they went on a hunger strike, a strategy designed to attract public attention to what the denial of women’s right to vote had led to. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “This is Raven. My virtual assistant. She’s a computer program designed to assist players in the scavenger hunt.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z His strict rules were designed as an invisible form of protection for us, and in many ways they reflected Birmingham’s segregation laws. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I could paint a sign that you could put out front. I could make a design for the handbill, too.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not a materials engineer; my design for the bedroom isn't elegant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I design with a view to a passage of quietly composed, soft, subdued pensive character, shape the ground, screen out discordant elements and get suitable vegetation growing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The leaves made designs on the background of the sky, intricate patterns that shifted with any slightest breeze. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs became cruder, the repertoire of themes reduced, the technical skill diminished. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And if my designs had not gone amiss, it would have been governed by Gandalf the Grey, and then mayhap things would have gone otherwise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Those who swelled their little unarmed strength into the reckoning one of leagues, clubs, societies, sisterhoods designed to hold or withhold, move or stay put, make a way, solicit, comfort and ease. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Before perspective drawing, if you wanted to design a piece of machinery, you had to make it, or make a model of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Actually,” Bridge said, “I have to do Tech Crew stuff—we kind of design the whole show, and then we run the lights and sound and everything.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He designed it to channel their talent and resources into productive activities that served the public interest. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I guess it was designed to be an offer I couldn’t refuse, but I’d have rather spent the summer in a Siberian labor camp than live with my uncle and his spoiled kids. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z There was something just too creepy about the genetically designed creatures to consider getting close to them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The two-man Gemini spacecraft was being designed to find out as much as we could in earth orbit before trying to take an Apollo spacecraft all the way to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The designs were due on March 31,1981, long after the semester ended. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z ‘There’d be a crest or something. A design or motto to go with the college name.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z My medicine chest was not designed for general practice, but I did have a bottle of sleeping pills—seconal, one and a half grains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I said I didn’t know he would use the same design.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Someone who will not plead, or explain, or think he can alter my design with entreaties, because he alone really knows how I operate. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to the middle of the diamond design and said, “That’s where you would hang the chandelier.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z One of these girls will wear a new color or style of belt or a button-plate hat tilted to one side, and that afternoon I’ll pore through our vendors’ catalogs to find similar designs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z To ensure a fair competition, each entry was given a number, and the applicant’s name was sealed in an envelope taped on the back of their design. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A tree is simply an easy way to display that design on a page. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Many of the residents, including Luke, attended Park- hill School on campus, which was designed for children with behavioral or emotional problems. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I’ve made money at Atlantic City using these counting strategies, and even considered having a specially designed ring made which would enable me to count more easily. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The M-Plan was designed to allow the organization to recruit new members, respond to local and national problems, and maintain regular contact between the membership and the underground leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Galen’s view the hand of a healthy person was designed to be the proper measure of hot and cold, damp and dry, soft and hard. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yeah, we designed it that way. I mean, that’s why my parents wanted a big house. We lived in a small two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, so...” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z We also had a hundred little things to take care of before we flew, such as designing a mission emblem and naming our spacecraft. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She was hoping one of those community pillars would see the design before the day’s business wiped it out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her red-leather jacket had a subtle design to it—twisted branches of an apple tree populated with skeletal birds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Marti watched as a CIA technician, toiling away in the cramped embassy office, carefully assembled a dead-drop package designed to look like a beat-up pack of cigarettes. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They were standard television spots designed simply to raise awareness. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You should. You helped with its design. Retractable cables for controlling multiple captives. And the barbs, of course.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A wooden partition carved with intricate floral designs serves as the headboard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z This was designed to bring down the house, and usually it did. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The final designs were drawn on two sheets of plaster and presented to the bishop and the chapter. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Swirls of silk thread on the bodice made rose-like designs that could have passed for a work by any master painter. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 And then there was lunch to make and, after lunch, work to be done on the bridesmaids’ dresses for Beverly’s wedding, which she had designed and was sewing herself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Quentin preferred making our design changes one at a time so if we had a failure, we’d know its likely cause. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If Ibn al-Haytham offered plenty of real experiments, medieval philosophy is also full of thought experiments designed to test the implications of theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His initial efforts were apparently not very successful, and Savery was consulted on how to improve his design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’d written all the facts and numbers in the center of the board, but he’d also painted a border of smiling eggs to add an “artistic design element.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a gray T-shirt with the logo I designed hand-drawn in fabric marker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The controls inside the mech are beautifully simple—designed for each of us to understand it instantaneously. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is a technology designed to make up for disease, or to postpone death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You couldn’t have designed those better yourself,” Mom said as she paid for the cards. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Prince selected the location—the farthest corner of the castle grounds, away from everything, so the roars wouldn’t bother the servants—but the Count designed the entrance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In 1421 the great engineer and architect Brunelleschi was given a three-year patent by the city of Florence on a new design for a barge for carrying marble. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They had designed all these in the laboratory and finished a single pilot model of each just before the war began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Framed in Stygian iron, the magical portal was a set of elevator doors—two panels of silver and black etched with art deco designs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was a 1955 edition of Jet magazine, a publication primarily designed for black readers, and the photograph on the front showed a dead boy’s mutilated head, face, and neck—up close. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Huge glass windows in lopsided shapes, cube-shaped offices, color schemes like aqua and fuchsia and marigold, which have never once made it past my mother’s beige limitations on interior design. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z And no pleasanter light was ever designed, although old timers say that whale oil makes a nicer flame. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He had buried his pearl under a stone of the fire hole in his house, and he stared at the woven tules of his sleeping mat until the crossed design danced in his head. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Their plan was designed to keep integration at a minimum. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At these times she began to shape the antler-weapon into a more elaborate design. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m barely following his conversation, and following very much feels like the right word, because this conversation is designed for me to be at least five steps behind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z If he was going to order a new shell, he wanted it custom designed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Later, the doctors designed gas chambers camouflaged as shower rooms that held from fifteen to twenty victims at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z George Post’s design called for twenty-two trusses, each weighing two hundred tons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Oppenheimer realized he needed to design a new type of plutonium bomb, he’d called for extra help. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not by myself. It took thousands of men to build her. But I did design her, that’s true.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Everything was designed to be packed away quickly or abandoned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Weeks are spent on the design and mechanics. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If most almanacs were designed to last only for a year, even a perpetual almanac would soon become grubby and dog-eared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was a small case there designed for the purpose of holding silver and plate. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I designed for both of them literally dozens of insulting, sub-normal, but quite constructive, drawing exercises. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z It’s designed to give the patients a sense of freedom and open air in the midst of claustrophobic sterility. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It had been built in the 1950s and was designed as a co-op, meant to ease a post-World War II housing shortage for black working-class families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They wanted to shape things/design things, create things, sell things, buy things, keep track of inventories, do somebody else’s taxes, and read somebody else’s X-rays from half a world away. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z One day at a time, he would journey through the years until he came upon the perfect design. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “And although she’s trying hard to do something about her situation, running again will not be an option if she doesn’t get a prosthesis designed specifically for running.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Mom’s own headscarf was dark blue, with peacock feather designs embroidered on it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z But having lost contact with NASA, I have to design my own Great Martian Winnebago to get there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony was held in the house Root had designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “There is a path designed for everyone and everyone must walk in his or her path. This is your path. You must walk it. To refuse would be...unfortunate.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Dr. Atchley’s initial response was that intelligent design qualifies as “pseudoscience.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As I turned it in my fingers, I found I could remember all the design details on the back, the titles of the tracks, everything. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Guerrilla warfare, he explained, was not designed to win a military victory so much as to unleash political and economic forces that would bring down the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Light social conversation, designed to keep the party going, prevails. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he’s been helping me design my own clothing line. You should see what he can do with velvet.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The southern-style mansions glared out at her, making sure she had no designs on the untold secrets and treasures hoarded within. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Astronomical instruments designed by Tycho Brahe serve as decorations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Both the food and the car have been designed for eating on the road. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Here the cabinets were designed to keep human beings from coming into direct contact with Nature. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was simply its nature, a feature of prison work as enduring as Sing Sing’s cellblock design. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her head ached from filling out college and scholarship applications, revising her admission essay, and working on a lengthy blog post critiquing the designs shown at Paris Fashion Week. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For example, he directed a contest to choose a female architect to design the Woman’s Building for the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His strength will increase as a snow-ball, by rolling, and faster, if some expedient cannot be hit upon to convince the slaves and servants of the impotency of his designs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He showed me things I had never seen, cruelties and horrors all committed in the name of the Authority, all designed to destroy the joys and the truthfulness of life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he found his DS, inserted the Nemesis cartridge into the back, turned it on, and passed the screen over the two sheets of paper, scanning first his message and then the design. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would sketch designs for new clothes for my Barbies to wear. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Kainene dusted herself down carefully, but the ground was wet and the mud had stuck to her clothes; her blue dress looked designed with chocolate-colored smudges. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Mama shows me things that are either straight from the Middle Ages or designed for someone who’s middle-aged. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The protein bar or Pop-Tart is designed to be consumed in the car on the way to school or to work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He’d admired the camera’s sleek design and its cool new features. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I once attended a lecture on biology addressed to a large general audience at a conference on technology, entertainment, and design. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The contents of her tooled leather purse with the rose designs had spilled all around her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They are a new kind—blue, with intricate designs made by layers in the glass. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He accounted it a pity that so fine and talented a young man should have formed the design of going out as a missionary; it was quite throwing a valuable life away. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The work was designed by Michelangelo but done by someone else. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Any school with a football team ought to have a computer gaming, web design, or programming team as well. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s the way he would design a world if it were up to him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It has all sorts of colorful paint designs on it: paint splatters, handprints, circles, hearts, rainbows. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She wanted to remember forever how fun it was to watch Baachan design this simple food like an artist. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “You want something specially designed for you! That’s just plain brilliant, Melody!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look! This is how a rocket nozzle works, why it’s designed as it is. Did you even bother to read about De Laval nozzles?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A team of specialists works long hours designing a strategy for his recovery. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It’s by his own design, mostly, a barricade of charm and fitful monologues and hard-headed independence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In any case, shortly after Ruess carved his mark into the sandstone, he departed Davis Gulch and mysteriously disappeared, apparently by design. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He even stuck checks into the slots of those cans designed for people to drop their spare change. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The little flare of the twig fire made the design on his sleeping mat jump before his entranced eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Is your map glowing brighter? Maybe it works like a homing device...” said Mini, poking at the “sprig of youth” design on her wrist. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z No one directly proclaimed that schools were designed to sanctify failure and destruction. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She held up her hand, where the design glowed brighter and brighter. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It is not possible, by listening to the music, to perceive the underlying design, although a skilled score reader may be able to plot its workings by studying the music on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Because my dress, oh, my dress is entirely covered in reflective precious gems, red and yellow and white with bits of blue that accent the tips of the flame design. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There were sightseeing trips up the Swiss Alps designed as getaways for relaxation, but these excursions only taxed Ernest’s weakened constitution. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Today our class was to take sponges that she and Sister Pat had cut up into different shapes and make printed designs on old T-shirts. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents met at an art and design college in San Francisco. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But the confessions, though they answered questions of how and why, failed to satisfy his sense of meaningful design. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z So it became imperative to establish design templates for instrumental music, even if the template was hidden beneath the surface of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the distance, I could see the manicured lawns of Pickett’s golf course, and beyond that the glass-and-steel Pickett mansion, which had been designed by some famous architect. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Mother’s casket was made of gleaming mahogany carved with designs of fairies and elves. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z At an inn one night, I suspected a skulking, one-eyed man of having designs upon my purse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z While in Munich, he also designed and laid out the famous park known as the English Garden. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Catt had remained dedicated to traditional lobbying—privately meeting with legislators and the president to persuade them to support suffrage—whereas Paul’s campaign had been designed to humiliate the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to design costumes or stage sets, but I could not tell anyone. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked again at the design engraved into the flat bottom of the tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Sewing Mistress approached, bearing a needle, an assortment of colored thread, and a round of white linen marked with a design of flowers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z After seeing it, Michelangelo is said to have praised Titian’s coloring and style but criticized his sense of design. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Lovelace also designed the tests that the Mercury 7 astronauts had gone through at his Albuquerque clinic. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z A nylon shower curtain, scarlet, with a design of canary-yellow sharps, flats, and clefs on it, was bunched up at the foot of the tub, attached with plastic rings to an over-head chromium bar. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Prison is designed to break you, but I’m already shattered. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The inlay work was flawless, the floral design intricate and graceful even on the incomplete pieces he held. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Maybe he can help us design a better paper airplane.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He saw a ring of silver and turquoise, a Navajo design; he saw it clearly and he recognized it as his own mother’s. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not the sort of job he’d envisioned for himself as a student; designing and renovating private residences was what he’d wanted to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Clearly the palace estate had been designed to draw in visitors and astound them with the splendor and glory of the Golden Crescent. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Marguerite warns me that he will one day use my son to fulfill his own political designs, for even churchmen long for empire. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It takes me a moment to remember the second, much shorter strand that Beetee wound around a branch and left on the ground before he even began his design on the tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol’s design, not mine. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At New Delhi, he bought for $15 a peg-in travel chess set with a beautifully detailed design that was made of fragrant sandalwood—but he felt guilty about paying so little for it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Us trying to make the best designs on the soles of our sneakers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was the size of a lady’s handkerchief and had a design outlined on it: a sitting Newfoundland dog with his tongue lolling out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ratliffs are vociferous at the table, opinionated about things his own parents are indifferent to: movies, exhibits at museums, good restaurants, the design of everyday things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I watch how different skirts flow, the way they hang depending on a woman’s height, her shape, the design of the dress. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Here in the middle of the Middle West an escape route, a road designed by fear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z At night she stays up late designing and cutting baby clothes to give to seamstresses. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Each rally was also designed to teach people how to vote. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Like other designed objects, it comes about not by accident but by drafting a blueprint, attending to details, and maintaining a sense of harmony and balance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Min and the other potters continued throwing pots, incising them with designs, glazing, firing, rejecting some vessels and keeping others. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As we walk around, Thaya Jaan points to the designs on the walls and shows us different patterns like flowers and trees, almost like windows in frames. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But they didn’t see anything that looked like the mehndi design. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Today we have preliminary designs for ships to take people to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By understanding how the various features of grammar are designed to make sharing possible, we can put them to use in writing more clearly, correctly, and gracefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Faget put Allen’s insight to work in the design of the Mercury space capsule, six feet wide and nearly eleven feet long, weighing three thousand pounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was a small, short-barreled, pocket-size handgun designed for concealment, not combat. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Good news because Petey’s wonderfully innovative holographic set designs would be displayed for the whole town. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he designs and builds robots. Amazing. I for one had no idea he was so into science.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Finally, Colonel Meecham began his descent, every step a deliberate one, tortoise-slow, designed to augment the impatience of his giddily avaricious offspring. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham was a talented artist and architect in his own right, but his greatest strength lay in his ability to win clients and execute Root’s elegant designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The only actual poll I ever took myself was informal and designed to answer the burning question: What percentage of college women enjoy watching the Three Stooges? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The nutrients, while suitable for the comfortable environment of a university microbiology laboratory, were not designed for the arid polar wasteland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He directed the actors, the lighting, and the set design. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Heather buys a pair with embroidered designs on the back pocket. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z She’s wearing her jacket, which might be pink but was clearly designed for winter in Florida, and she looks completely frozen. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The students were asked to read over and over a single phonetic paragraph designed to teach them how to soften their t’s and to roll their r s. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z One boy says, under his breath, that he’s heard it’s designed to target each individual’s weaknesses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “They seem to be designed to be read by someone who knows Shay quite well. By you, perhaps.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Withstanding forces far greater than it was designed for, it rippled violently against the airlock seal- strip. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The words themselves are marvels, each one perfectly designed for its use. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The answer is that it is partly a matter of where astronomers point their instruments and partly a matter of what their instruments are designed to detect, and partly it’s just Pluto. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Each part of the house is treated as a separate pocket of space and as a design element that is integrated into the scene as a whole. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He designed it himself with Count Rugen’s help, and he sent his hirelings across the world to stock it for him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Ceaugescu’s ban on abortion was designed to achieve one of his major aims: to rapidly strengthen Romania by boosting its population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Catherine and I research all kinds of electronic talking and communication devices that have been designed for people like me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I worked a design of silver hoops, and in that way I got my earrings back again. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem with the rovers' pop-tents is they weren't designed for frequent use. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the ship was already designed for it, they used the system on the return trip as well. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jammed over one ear was a gold crown, clearly designed for a human head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Fancy gold and bronze designs line the edges of the walls and ceilings, and this mini-mansion looks like it was built for princes and princesses. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was designed to be unfinished, so that lean-tos could jut out as they were needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But Penelope was in no mood to think about the evolution of interior design trends. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The remaining problems in calutron design were merely engineering, he declared, a cat he had skinned dozens of times. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The walls are made of glass—I guess I know which faction designed my school. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “It would take you forever to find the best design if you only made one change at a time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z You have your designs now, and we know all the tricks of actually building an aeroplane.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Felicia designed great circles of overlapping shells on the sand, as if someone on the moon, or farther still, might read their significance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I lift it carefully into the air to admire the exquisite balance, the elegant design, and the curve of the limbs that somehow suggests the wings of a bird extended in flight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Thompson, Samel, and Swanson, however, are contumacious Alaskans with a special fondness for driving motor vehicles where motor vehicles aren’t really designed to be driven. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not design fairs, he told Ellsworth. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It doesn’t shoot real bullets,” I say, “but it seems like they designed it so it would be as close as possible to one of the guns you’ll be using. It feels real, anyway.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was poetry designed to tell a tale. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Also available are episode-specific craft packages, a line of print fabrics designed by Paisley, and a weekly class focusing on a craft from the show. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Everything otherwise was designed to accommodate our well-being as students. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "Major Martinez will pilot the MAV remotely from Hermes. It's already designed for remote piloting. It was remotely landed, after all." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The men with skin like the milk of goats and their Ashanti companions drank the palm wine from hand-carved gourds that had been decorated with ceremonial tribal designs. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In late November, with only a few weeks to go before the design was due to her professor, she and two classmates drove down to Washington, DC. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Or”—Abby glances at me—“you could set up an online store. Maybe you could upload some designs, and then people could order prints and phone cases and stuff.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z He puts away the course guide and opens up a library book that might be helpful for his senior thesis project, a comparison between Renaissance Italian and Mughal palace design. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Renaissance view of nature as a machine...is based on the human experience of designing and constructing machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z |
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