| 单词 | laboratory |
| 例句 | Above me I can hear furious voices coming from the third-floor window as the soldiers realize they're going to have to double back into the laboratory to disable the alarm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Sometimes they nosed around the laboratory, and although Granddaddy seemed fond of them, he never let them in. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Since its establishment in 1917, the laboratory’s operations had been concentrated on the campus of the Langley Field military base on the bank of Hampton’s Back River. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Langley’s personnel officer, Melvin Butler, courted Williams energetically by phone, trying to convince him to accept the laboratory’s offer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These photographs were definite proof that the virus was multiplying in the Reston monkeys— that it was not a laboratory contamination. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He went across the vacant lot, crossed the street and entered the basement of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist named John Gottman. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The money was a landmark, for no single research laboratory had ever received a grant of such magnitude; none even had shown the audacity to ask. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Unitary Plan Tunnel had come online in 1955, funded by legislation to build state-of-the-art wind tunnels at each of the NACA’s three main laboratories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In her laboratory, six saltwater aquaria gurgle reassuringly; on the back wall stand three cabinets with four hundred drawers in each, salvaged years ago from the office of Dr. Geffard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hazleton Research Products is a division of Coming, Inc. Coming’s Hazleton unit is involved with the importation and sale of laboratory animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the beginning, the army had allowed the laboratory to operate on the campus of the airfield. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I start to see how the kitchen is kind of like a laboratory. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He begged Blanca never to enter what he called his “laboratory” without permission, because, he explained, the plates could be destroyed by natural light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The propulsion experts at NASA’s laboratory in Cleveland took the lead on the craft’s electrical system and the retrofire rockets built into the craft itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “And breathe, Pfennig. You cannot hold your breath every time you’re in my laboratory.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But filling its spacious offices and laboratories with appropriately distinguished professors was not as easy as getting the structure built. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mathematician Doris Cohen, a native New Yorker who started working at the laboratory in the late 1930s, was for many years the NACA’s lone female author. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “The main vault was converted to a laboratory for him.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Unlike academically oriented research organizations, the NACAs laboratories always strove to live up to the “practical solutions” of their founding mission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The students called his laboratory the Fly Room. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then a car turned into Cannery Row and Doc drove up to the front of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Teller’s departure from Los Alamos failed to quell interest in a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What if history was a gambler, instead of a force in a laboratory experiment, and the boys his ace in the hole? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In being man-made — by ingenious laboratory manipulation of the molecules, substituting atoms, altering their arrangement — they differ sharply from the simpler insecticides of prewar days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z An extensive program of research is under way in the United States Department of Agriculture laboratory at Peoria, Illinois, to find a way to culture the organism of milky disease on an artificial medium. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She calmly placed the needle on a shelf, then walked to the door of the laboratory and pushed a button on the wall near it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In the makeshift alchemical laboratory in the windowless attic of the crematorium, a small blue flame touched the curved glass base of a suspended flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But laboratory studies have shown that even skilled readers have a little voice running through their heads the whole time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, Tomkins visited Ekman at his laboratory in San Francisco. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The transmutation of the elements was pursued in medieval laboratories in a quest called alchemy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She taped the mouse belly-up to a table in her laboratory, shaved his fur off, then watched on a monitor as the mouse came nearer and nearer to death. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But there in the lofty environment of the laboratory, a place that had selected them for their intellectual talents, the sign seemed especially ridiculous and somehow more offensive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Holt consolidated the parcels and sold them to the federal government for the flying field and laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We know they are composed of water ice, because the spectral properties of sunlight reflected off the rings match those of ice in the laboratory measurements. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To practical men of industry the possibilities seem real enough so that at least one major electronic corporation is preparing to set up a laboratory to test them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Rifkin and many others believed that any manipulation of DNA, even in a controlled laboratory setting, was dangerous because it might lead to genetic mutations and make it possible to engineer “designer babies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Every year, Dorothy Vaughans children counted the days until the laboratory’s giant picnic, where they could romp and play with the other kids and eat their fill of grilled hot dogs and hamburgers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There he was a competent but not terribly outstanding chemist known more for his wild hair and beard, which he had trimmed just once a year, than for his gifts in the laboratory. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So they served as laboratory assistants for science projects and turned the kitchen table into an honors calculus class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The shock and terror had made him wet his pants, and no one in the laboratory would notice him, not even the instructor, who hated him sincerely for similar explosions in the past. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The majority of Langley’s female professionals had spent their time at the laboratory classified as computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The laboratory was still hiring black women into the pool faster than they were being sent out to other positions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They had maliciously broken into the laboratory and systematically destroyed it out of pure malice and evil. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Designed as a laboratory for black economic and political development, Soul City was planned to accommodate 50,000 residents. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I drew back under the trees and skirted around the house to the laboratory, adding to my tardiness and the repercussions I’d have to face at the table. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She worked part time in a laboratory on campus to support herself too, but she had a hard time doing that when she lost him. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the laboratory, Mr. Loomis also had the world’s only radiation-proof suit, and he had the air filter and the water filter. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z While the East Computers had flowed out of their office and into the larger operations of the laboratory like a river, segregation kept the outmigration of West Computing to a trickle. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The team that occupied most of the new building managed its own section of computers, like all the laboratory’s divisions now. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But not being out in the laboratory was killing me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z 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 when Mr. Larson squinted and rubbed his hands together and said, “It’s like we get to mess around in our own private democracy laboratory!” even Cara had to smile. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Grace’s hands are fists, her fatted chin is trembling, her eyes are pink and watery, like a laboratory rabbit’s. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z UC Berkeley’s medical school would not get over its disdain for John’s studies for years, until the situation was finessed by the creation of a separate laboratory for radiation science in 1942. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They were taken one by one to a laboratory, and of course this made them all very frightened; how cruel it would be, Lyra thought, if she perished without striking a blow at them! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Melvin Butler leaned on the US Civil Service Commission and the War Manpower Commission as hard as he could so that the laboratory might get top priority on the limited pool of qualified applicants. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The pathologist subsequently performed an autopsy at the Department of Forensic Sciences laboratory in Mobile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Indeed, if laboratory mice have too much HLA diversity, Black told me, researchers can’t use them to observe the progress of an infectious disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He believed the Rad Lab was destined to face inevitable decline as physics progressed and competitive laboratories emerged—many of them built on the model Lawrence had pioneered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This wasn’t the laboratory, it was a washroom, and Dr. Malone was agitated. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Overnight, Ms. Hussey’s classroom became a combination of museum and laboratory. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Interviews that year yielded four new Farmville girls for the laboratory’s computing sections. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And how could anyone experiment on the unconscious, which, by definition, seemed to defy laboratory techniques of testing? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Are there planets where the inhabitants proudly display pendants of niobium and bracelets of protactinium, while gold is a laboratory curiosity? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now other laboratories of the Department are taking up the problem, testing chemicals against stable flies, mosquitoes, boll weevils, and an assortment of fruit flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Teller saw the lab as a reflection of his own brimming self-esteem—as a huge laboratory staffed with name physicists working in lockstep according to his handcrafted research strategy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Obviously the red light was some kind of a warning signal, both outside the door and in—“laboratory animal at large.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Todd made his official visit late in the week, coming over from the chemical laboratory with several younger colleagues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Earlier in the night, she had done the same with the golden faranji, standing right beside him while he did furious work in a laboratory of spurting flames and shattered glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The University of California was a logical beneficiary of his own patent rights, since Cottrell’s work had been done in its laboratories. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Now, Mary’s presence at the laboratory built on plantation land rebuked the shortsighted intolerance of her fellow Virginian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Above were the research laboratories and the padded rooms in which the Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did their delicate work. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z That's the third floor, a laboratory, where the blood samples and medicines will be. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When I was a college undergraduate in the early 1950’s, I was fortunate enough to work in the laboratory of H. J. Muller, a great geneticist and the man who discovered that radiation produces mutations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mack and the boys had taken the crepe paper, the masks, the broomsticks and paper pumpkins, the red, white, and blue bunting, and moved over the lot and across the street to the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He concentrated so much on his experiments in silverwork that he scarcely left the laboratory to eat. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Whatever his personal feelings on race, one thing was clear: Butler was a Langley man through and through, loyal to the laboratory, to its mission, to its worldview, and to its charge during the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At the outset, most of it came from Groves, who committed to supporting Lawrence’s laboratory at the level of more than $3 million a year. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The question of what should be done with the discoveries pouring out of university laboratories was widely debated in academia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “How much did your laboratory contribute to war problems?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It doesn’t matter, now, to figure out how Jeanine set up the security on her laboratory, of all things. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He was in the laboratory working without me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The development of the cyclotron was begun several years before these discoveries on faith that the availability of controlled atomic projectiles within the laboratory would lead to important scientific progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Entering the waiting Langley shuttle bus, Dorothy Vaughan headed to her final destination in the laboratory’s West Area. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You would be surprised to know what this laboratory has been running on in the last few years,” he told Lawrence—“less than some men spend on tobacco.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some Hamptonites still recalled how the strange folks at the laboratory saved the town from the economic despair of Prohibition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Uriah takes my arm and leads me away from him, through the laboratory, through the room of light, through the blue hallway. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Universities that had shown their value during the war, such as Berkeley, stood at the head of the line for grants for faculty research and laboratory construction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In fact, their only images have been produced under carefully controlled laboratory conditions that tell us more about the experimenter than they do about art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Edward was a man who worked in the laboratory with Dr. Kylmer and me. But I didn’t think I had mentioned his name.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z One Wednesday evening in July, her assistant knocks quietly on the open door to the laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Mary’s new boss suggested that she enroll in the laboratory’s engineer training program; her ability and her passion for the work were abundantly clear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The plant took up residence in the southern windowsill of the laboratory and, after some anxiety on my part, grabbed a firm hold on life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She wanted to try and catch Shadows, and without the instruments in her laboratory she had to improvise with the materials at hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Despite this failure in actual practice, encouraging laboratory experiments led entomologists to believe lice were unlikely to develop resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the laboratory the girls from Dora’s heard the Plain Songs and Gregorian music for the first time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Quietly, some laboratory employees complained about the “New York communist people” and the “practically impossible New York Jews” recruited to work at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Tell me again,” said Dr. Oliver Payne, in the little laboratory overlooking the park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the GAC weighed the two proposals, questions of morale and laboratory politics, not scientific merit, came to the fore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He knelt beside the first of these and looked through into a large white-tiled room, a laboratory with complicated glass and steel equipment laid out over work surfaces. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Bragg, in dismissing him from his room, had angrily told him that he would consider seriously whether he could continue to give Francis a place in the laboratory after his Ph.D. course was ended. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He placed the responsibility for fashioning a suitable new vacuum chamber in Livingston’s hands, and then vanished from the laboratory to go “angling for funds and other support,” Livingston recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All these consequences of radiation have been duplicated in laboratory studies by a large group of chemicals known as radio- mimetic or radiation-imitating. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They dealt only with experimental data and were filled with graphs, charts, tables, photographs of devices for the measuring of auditory, visual, and tactile responses, and with mathematical translations of laboratory findings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Thus it is impossible to test A proton and an antiproton collide at high energy, producing a couple of almost free quarks. grand unified theories directly in the laboratory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All laboratory beakers in the room were made of plastic. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can go to a laboratory,” the small man said pleasandy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The fact that I can make a vacuum in the laboratory, for example, need not mean that a vacuum can ever occur in nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ultrasonic sound will kill all mosquito larvae in a laboratory tank; however, it kills other aquatic organisms as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Lymphocytes are apparently informed about everything foreign around them, and some of them come equipped for fitting with polymers that do not exist until organic chemists synthesize them in their laboratories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She was waiting outside the laboratory when it opened. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Mack and the boys sat dejectedly on their log and faced the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Livermore was undergoing its transition from the MTA project to its role as the second bomb laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Halfway out of his laboratory Katherine grabs my wrist and gives me a proper glare. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The peerless laboratory facilities and distinguished faculty of New Haven, Connecticut, attracted an especially promising crop of young researchers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “How long did you keep them in your laboratory?” one scientist asked, suggesting that Gartler had contaminated the cells himself after they arrived in his lab. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As an unforeseen bonus for the purposes of this book, evolutionary biology is a historical science forced to use methods different from those of the laboratory sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then they checked all the cages, dimmed the lights, locked the doors and went home, leaving us alone in the still laboratory. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And what else could you do in a laboratory except experiment with the physiology of animals and men? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z If I’d been paying attention, I might have noticed that Viola gave me a funny look whenever I headed out the back door to Granddaddy’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But their procedure, as it turned out, actually had baked laboratory dust onto the targets, which accounted for the irregular findings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There were also classrooms on the fifth floor, as well as a psychology laboratory, which contained rats, mazes, screens, and a variety of instruments for the measuring of auditory and visual responses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Each new facility the laboratory built fueled the demand for specialization among its professionals. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Showing it all around, he ended up in front of his older son, who during the past few days had barely put in an appearance in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They were, they insisted, interested only in chemical processes which they could reproduce in their own laboratories and could then have certified by their colleagues. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some of the children looked like walking puffballs, they were so bulky, but their gear had been made in factories and laboratories far away from the cold, and it couldn’t really cope. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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 “Do you know what can happen in a year? Houses fall. Kingdoms fall. While you sit in your laboratory learning the properties of metal?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Theorists tend to be more liberal in their politics, liberal ranging on into radical,” the Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, Lawrence’s laboratory associate and brother-in-law, observed years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z How do you estimate the total need, per patient per year, for doctors, nurses, drugs, laboratory tests, hospital beds, x-rays, and so forth, in the best of rational worlds? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had decided it would be my rocket laboratory. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They would tie the end of their thread to the grid in our laboratory and unroll it from the spool as they went. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The deuton, Livingston added, “was what made the Berkeley laboratory famous. We were opening up a whole new field of science.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No laboratory in the world was as well equipped as theirs to discover artificial radioactivity, for none was as capable of such sustained bombardment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He hoped someday to grow whole organs in the laboratory, filling massive vaults with lungs, livers, kidneys, and tissues he could ship through the mail for transplantation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the back room of the laboratory the white rats in their cages ran and skittered and squeaked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Loomis is back with him near Ithaca, in the laboratory under the mountain. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Chemical reactions like those in our laboratory vessels may be responsible for the organic matter in interstellar space and the amino acids found in meteorites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She still counts storm drains: thirty-eight on the walk home from her laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The laboratory was just an old shed that had once been part of the slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He published prolifically; his areas of interest, which included the propagation of electron beams and their usefulness as ionization agents, were among the most intriguing in physics; and his resourceful laboratory technique was widely praised. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We put the Plant to bed in the laboratory and joined the others inside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And the lights blazed in the quiet empty laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc went back to the laboratory and poured out a glass of beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When she reached the laboratory, she was still trembling. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer wore on, and I found respite in the coolness of the river and the dimness of Granddaddy’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was this that eventually led him to create a sterile laboratory–the world’s first, according to at least one account. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When the lights were on and the curtains drawn, and the Gregorian music played on the great phonograph, Mack used to look down on the laboratory from the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time he shuts his eyes, some vision of the school at Schulpforta overmasters him: vermilion flags, muscular horses, gleaming laboratories. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For well over a decade, his spies had been infiltrating the United States, burrowing their way into private companies, schools, laboratories, and even government offices. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Their impeccable manners and graciousness did not offer complete protection from the reactions some of the staff had to the presence of black men in professional positions at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The monkeys that are used in laboratories are not organ-grinder monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd assembly that gathered that night, under the dimmed lights in the echoing laboratory, on the shelf where Justin and I had talked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z On one screen Alex could see the underground laboratory, on another the assembly line, on a third the airstrip with the last of the trucks on its way out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Viola refused to call it either the laboratory or the former slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes when it was all dark and when it seemed that sleep had come at last, the diamond-true child voices of the Sistine Choir would come from the windows of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must return to my laboratory. My purple goop is boiling over a Bunsen burner. So are my ramen noodles.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The suit had been carefully tested in the laboratory, and it was safe against all predictable radiation levels. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How could she be so dismissive of the racism in their workplace, however passive, when her very entry to the laboratory had been under segregated circumstances? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Before he did, he checked the radioactivity inside the car, using a Geiger counter from the laboratory. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He now was fashioning a device by himself, without an army of technicians and engineers, working on a laboratory bench at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In order from most corny to least, this is how the laboratory measured our meal: What looks like a meal with lots of variety turns out to be mainly corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “As the youngest member of the laboratory, it was I who had to yield and to watch the team go its way rather than my way,” he reflected later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And in their minds the decorated laboratory looked like the conservatory at the Hotel del Monte. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If he wanted to combine his love of medicine with anthropology, recording his observations, testing his academic theories, he thought, there was perhaps no better laboratory in the Western Hemisphere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By 1961, several laboratories around the world had joined the race to decipher the genetic code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Much of the work occurred at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, which in 1958 established the world’s first major archaeological carbon-dating laboratory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Therefore, what must be planned for, in the laboratories engaged in the work, is the totally unforeseeable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She lived by herself in the old slave quarters out past Granddaddy’s laboratory, and though it had once housed a dozen or so slaves, it was the perfect size for one person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Henry Reid, engineer-in-charge of the Langley laboratory, crooned to his employees, the shibboleth a reminder of the importance of the airplane to the war’s outcome. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then they were to go to the laboratory, make their bomb, and blow up the target. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Her dad was a nanotechnologist whose laboratory was in their basement. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So Slavin contacted laboratories and pharmaceutical companies to ask if they wanted to buy his antibodies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z So Wilson became a laboratory technician, then a transportation coordinator, working in a cubicle in a low-slung building in Astoria, Queens, overseeing fuel deliveries for the company’s fleet. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Better than anything else Frankie loved it when there were parties upstairs in the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But theirs was not a natural isotope, it was an unstable isotope of phosphorus created in their laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Unlikely as it may seem, the television game show The Weakest Link provides a unique laboratory to study discrimination. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Doc’s birthday party had barely time to get inside the laboratory and wedge the broken door closed and turn out the lights before the police car cruised up. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She stopped in her tracks, her heart in her mouth, but a second moan pulled her to her senses, giving her the strength to continue toward Jean de Satigny’s laboratory door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry Reid advised employees to stay on the lookout for spies disguised as Langley Field soldiers and warned of fifth column plants who might coax valuable research from unwitting laboratory employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Professor Kylmer had a research grant from the government and worked part of the time at a special laboratory they had built for him, not at Cornell but in the mountains about twenty miles away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She and her sister, the wife of a soldier stationed at Fort Monroe, entered the laboratory’s Duplicate Bridge tournament in 1947 and took second place. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z During the tests he drew blood samples from the people he vaccinated, which he later examined in the laboratory. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They did that often, slowly detaching themselves from their friends, to sit in a corner by the library or take a walk in the green behind the laboratories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The blaze was brought under control just before 10 p.m., but damage to the subbasement laboratory was extensive. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z They also attended a weekly two-hour laboratory session for hands-on training in one of the wind tunnels, shouldering an average of four hours of homework on top of a six-day workweek. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I open one of the doors off the main corridor, hoping to find a window so I can reorient myself, but I find only a ransacked laboratory, beakers and test tubes scattered across each counter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In 1869 a French scientist, Leopold Trouvelot, accidentally allowed a few of these moths to escape from his laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, where he was attempting to cross them with silkworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When and if the laboratory would make her a permanent offer of employment was a matter for the future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Back in the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge he built an artificial cloud chamber–a simple device in which he could cool and moisten the air, creating a reasonable model of a cloud in laboratory conditions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Some afternoons he leaves Marie-Laure in the laboratory of Dr. Geffard, an aging mollusk expert whose beard smells permanently of damp wool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a kind of moth that had adapted to Drosophila genetics laboratories. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A couple of days later, in Lawrence’s office, York was startled when Ernest asked him bluntly: “Does the United States need a second nuclear weapons laboratory?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The word came from John Slater, MIT’s physics chairman, who was passing on thirdhand information from a National Research Fellow in his laboratory, who heard it from a friend at Harvard working at Raytheon part-time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For example, a sample of drinking water from an orchard area in Pennsylvania, when tested on fish in a laboratory, contained enough insecticide to kill all of the test fish in only four hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I reported to Lawrence that I, too, felt it would probably be useful to establish a second laboratory,” he recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Alex just had time to hide himself on the floor, underneath one of the work surfaces, before the first door was thrown open and two more guards ran into the laboratory. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I let her think that I and my colleagues went to a company and covertly observed a warehouse or laboratory or retail floor, then exposed all the cheats and criminals. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In laboratory tests on animal subjects, DDT has produced suspicious liver tumors. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z From the laboratory Mack crossed the street and went through the swinging screen doors into Lee Chong’s grocery. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That certainty, mulled over for several months in the small room he used as his laboratory, brought him to the conception of the plan to move Macondo to a better place. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z With the rise of Islam, Egypt became the world’s great sugar laboratory. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z There were twenty of us in the laboratory, and we had to let the others know. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The employees came together for extracurricular activities based at the laboratory: in 1954, Henry Reid appointed Chubby Peddrew to serve as one of the directors of Langley’s inaugural United Fund Drive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z 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 Upstairs, there was a science laboratory fully equipped with glass beakers, test tubes, and a variety of scales, batteries, and chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The samples were packaged and shipped to a forensics laboratory in Germany for testing; the Icelandic DNA laboratory was ruled out to avoid any possibility of compromise or conflict. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No small number of them married the men they worked with; the laboratory’s success as a matchmaking service rivaled its research prowess. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Swaddled in leaded clothing, they crossed to Gilman Hall and crab-walked up two flights of stairs to a vacated laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “This organization is considering a plan to visit certain women’s colleges in this area and interview senior students majoring in mathematics,” the laboratory wrote. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Do you know what she spent on your laboratory?” demanded the duke. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We went back into the laboratory, and he put the weed in the middle of the counter, then sank into his armchair, the springs echoing in a way that normally would have made me giggle. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I thought the doctor might have pumped somebody's stomach and then analyzed what he found in his hotel laboratory. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z And though the American Medical Association had issued rules protecting laboratory animals in 1910, no such rules existed for humans until Nuremberg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The idea that America required a second weapons laboratory to supplement Los Alamos originated with Edward Teller and was driven by two factors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One other discovery by a European laboratory would help to establish the cyclotron as a must-have apparatus for physics research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He had long since turned over the running of the family business to his only son, my father, Alfred Tate, and spent his days engaged in “experiments” in his “laboratory” out back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Off the agency’s long hallways are laboratories filled with airplane wreckage: a mangled piece of an engine turbine, a problematic piece of a helicopter rotor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But the complexity of nuclear physics was rapidly outstripping the capabilities of the laboratory apparatus of small science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But laboratory experimentation can obviously play little or no role in many of the historical sciences. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Around the same time, Dorothy Vaughans relative, Matilda West, possibly the black computer accused of disloyalty, was fired from her job at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He stayed in the laboratory for three months, hoping the radiation level in the air outside would go down, but it did not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It would be led by Lyman J. Briggs, a career government scientist then directing the National Bureau of Standards, which by default served as the government’s physics laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many white laboratory employees, particularly on the East Side, hadn’t even known that an all-black computing group existed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Lawrence’s concern, Frank recalled, was that politics might cause dissension and distraction on the laboratory floor—creating what he called “inhomogeneity” in the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She is about to say more when footfalls in the hall stop outside the laboratory door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Tori told me there were insane security measures protecting Jeanine’s laboratory,” I say. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In the laboratory, which adjoined the parlor, Dad, his movie cameraman, a nurse, and Dr. Burton were converting a desk into an operating table, and setting up the cross-section background and lights. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I could go out the front door and around the long way to the laboratory in back, or cut through the kitchen and face more revulsion and more explanations on the way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z On two occasions the corridor outside his office was flooded with water pouring out of a laboratory in which Crick was working. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But people in laboratories are working on new materials, such as ceramic or carbon compounds, that could withstand such high temperatures without melting. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They sit on the bed across from mine, and I tell them about getting cornered in one of the Erudite laboratories the night before, about the pillowcase and the Allegiant and the meeting. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A snake kept in a laboratory cage had gone into violent tremors after being fed such worms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The lumberjacks and environmentalists love me equally, but a problem arises when a group of lesser scientists spread the rumor that the leaves of my trees cause cancer in laboratory animals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z On a shelf in one of the laboratories is the cockpit voice and data recorder—the so-called black box—from the devastating Valujet crash in Florida in 1996, in which 110 people were killed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Briggs’s rules prohibiting publication of fission-related articles soon expanded to a blanket ban on any discussion of the topic outside the confines of the laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1947, the laboratory bought an “electronic calculator” from Bell Telephone Laboratories, an investment in the ongoing need for transonic flight research. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It opened on a secret, high-tech laboratory hidden in a cave. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He might have requested an assistant to do such menial chores, but he was too jealous of his secret to let anyone into his laboratory. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then they crossed the street and sat down on the lower step of the stairs that went to the second story of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The investigation tapped into veins of anti-Semitism that flowed just under the racial prejudice at the laboratory and in the community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But thus far they had been detected only in cosmic rays; the possibility of a laboratory demonstration of their existence might well justify construction of the cyclotron that could achieve it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This one dated back to the previous fall, when the AEC and the Pentagon had worked out the military program for both weapons laboratories. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was still overcast, but the light outside was better than the gloom of the laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The man who discovered that fact was Walter Nelson-Rees, a chromosome expert who was director of cell culture at the Naval laboratory. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We closed up the laboratory and walked back to the house in silence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Two days a week after work, Dorothy and the other new girls filed into a makeshift classroom at the laboratory for a full immersion in the fundamental theory of aerodynamics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z 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 With its many new facilities coming into operation, the laboratory again cast its net for the female alchemists who could turn the numbers from testing into aeronautical gold. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I ran to my laboratory and got my metal detector out of its box in the closet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He could fix the delicate electric motors in the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The parade ended at Darling Stadium, the namesake of the oyster magnate whose creative entrepreneurship had brokered the land deal with the federal government for the Langley laboratory a half century before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Dalgard met them in the lobby and escorted them to another building, which was a laboratory. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tizerkane guards were silent silhouettes in their watchtowers, and the golden faranji returned directly to his laboratory and locked himself inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, looking at Leon, Goober saw the teacher as if in technicolor, blood beating in his cheeks, his moist eyes like specimens in laboratory test tubes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack found Doc way back in the downstairs part of the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At his Palermo laboratory, he worked the Berkeley molybdenum assiduously. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I may be angry with her for fighting me in Jeanine’s laboratory, but she’s still Tori, the woman who guarded the secret of my Divergence. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But since the afternoon when he called the children in to help him unpack the things in the laboratory, he gave them his best hours. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Not only was the group all black, it was also the only stand-alone all-female professional section left at the laboratory, and by the late 1950s, that had become an anachronism. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By 1956, more black women were now working in other areas of the laboratory than in West Computing itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps the origin of life is not so easy as our laboratory experiments suggest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the back was another laboratory space, which was to be Alvarez’s research home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One survey found that 53 percent of laboratories had stopped offering or developing at least one genetic test because of patent enforcement, and 67 percentfelt patents interfered with medical research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “There was a sudden noise in the laboratory, of running footsteps and yelling voices,” remembered Otto Frisch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind me I hear the laboratory door burst open and soldiers spill out. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I wished that she would not keep looking at me as if I were a strange laboratory animal to be explained and catalogued. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Day broke into the laboratory for medicine as part of a desperate, last-minute, poorly thought-out plan. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Division chiefs, just two rungs down from the top post in the laboratory, however, were Very Important People. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mack came back from the laboratory with his mouth torn and his teeth broken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence spent the intervening weekend at Oak Ridge, attending a conference of AEC laboratory directors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nothing about the culture of the laboratory or her new office rattled her—not even the persistent racial segregation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Time and again the laboratory drew itself together and faced the new problems and got on with the work.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been standing in a rough circle on the floor of the laboratory, just outside the two screen doors that enclosed the mice cages. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But a grappling hook was all Violet could think of to make without a proper inventing laboratory, and time was running short. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Evans was not out of line in questioning whether the cyclotron yet ranked as a simple-to-use laboratory apparatus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Upon returning to Berkeley later that day, Ernest asked Teller to leave Chicago and help him establish the second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Within minutes, Miele was on a table in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, awaiting angioplasty to unclog his artery—a procedure that many cardiologists say has become the gold standard in heart attack treatment. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Some of his new employees were distinctly oddballs for an academic laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For example, in our study of geology, we could go only so far by looking at rocks in a laboratory. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was enough for Stanley to buy his family a new house, with a laboratory in the basement, and for Hector to hire a team of private investigators. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He retired to his laboratory or else he headed off in the morning with his satchel over his shoulder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In my laboratory at Cornell University we work on, among other things, prebiological organic chemistry, making some notes of the music of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The scientific facts released by the Food and Drug Administration clearly indicate the carcinogenic nature of aminotriazole in laboratory rats. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The full scope of the dangerous interaction of chemicals is as yet little known, but disturbing findings now come regularly from scientific laboratories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How else could a science of psychology be built except by laboratory findings? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The next day after school we came back to the laboratory with a box of Dad’s matches. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She hired a local woman named Minnie whose sole job was washing the laboratory glassware using the only product Margaret would allow: Gold Dust Twins soap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z That includes interviews with the four or five laboratory workers who cared for the animals, which have since been destroyed as a precaution, and any other people who were near the monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fate had arranged, I concluded, that an example of a major evolutionary change in a single generation, the very thing Muller had said could never happen, should take place in his own laboratory. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the eggs of the birds, like those of the laboratory frogs, stop developing simply because they lacked enough of the common currency of energy — the ATP molecules — to complete their development? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a triumph, for which he was rewarded by his godmother with a laboratory of his own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Lyra thought this young woman had a nerve, acting as if it were her own laboratory, but she nodded meekly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No one knows who took that picture, but it’s appeared hundreds of times in magazines and science textbooks, on blogs and laboratory walls. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The new phenomenon of cell fusion, a laboratory trick on which much of today’s science of molecular genetics relies for its data, is the simplest and most spectacular symbol of the tendency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he looks around and says, “But now that you’ve mentioned it, I am going to need a laboratory.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z A year later, he was breeding maggots by the thousands, in milk bottles filled with rotting fruit in a third-floor laboratory at Columbia University.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The essential contradiction between the operational methods of research laboratories and industrial factories became excruciatingly clear. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Crab eaters are used as laboratory animals because they are common, cheap, and easily obtained. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was with a very small boy, unmistakably her brother, whose cap she removed by lifting it off his head with two fingers, as if it were a laboratory specimen. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z As a last resort, I rounded up my courage and went out to my grandfather’s laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Lavoisier had thirteen thousand of them in what was, to an almost preposterous degree, the finest private laboratory in existence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was as if God had given Adam a nice little laboratory in Eden, but then forbidden him from peering over the walls of the garden. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But being sent to sit with the brain trust located on the second floor of the building meant getting a close look at one of the most important and powerful groups at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She figured up the tuition; a little over sixty dollars with laboratory fees. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be best, he says, if she stayed in the key pound with her Braille workbooks, or upstairs in the mollusk laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Rather more cautious, Alvarez confided to his diary: “I am going on almost full-time as director of a nonexistent laboratory on an unauthorized program.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As proof, she announced the creation of a Zea diploperennis-gamagrass hybrid in the laboratory that displayed the attributes of ancient maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For example, rabbits were not domesticated for food until the Middle Ages, mice and rats for laboratory research not until the 20th century, and hamsters for pets not until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To Oppenheimer, this sounded like a marketing pitch for government funding of Lawrence’s laboratory, and he persuaded Ernest to back down. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence did not yet command a laboratory staff—only three graduate students, each already working on projects he had approved. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 Uttered by another laboratory director, these words might sound like lip service, but the record shows that Lawrence vigorously sought opportunities even for his best people. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So for the most part they end up in medical research laboratories, which is what happens to a lot of ex-circus chimps as well. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But in the 1980s and 1990s a gush of new information about the first Americans came in from archaeological digs, anthropological laboratories, molecular biology research units, and linguists’ computer models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He and his colleague Charles Sumner Tainter went to work in Bell's Washington laboratory, using their own ideas and input from other scientists whom they had contacted by letter and telegram. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But whereas every maneuver executed by the 332nd in their red-tailed Mustangs fed the headlines, the daily work of the West Computers and the rest of the laboratory employees was sensitive, confidential, or secret. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “If the laboratory recognizes people, maybe it also knows data about everyone, and can present a corresponding simulated environment depending on your faction.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Among the items she had taken from the drawer in the laboratory was an expired library card of Oliver Payne’s. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But the job at the aeronautical laboratory was something new, something so unusual it hadn’t yet entered the collective dreams. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On the left side is a desk with glass screens suspended above it, and on the right side is a small laboratory with wood furnishings instead of metal ones. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “They were analyzed before being grown in my laboratory,” Gartler responded. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Langley’s first female computing pool, started in 1935, had caused an uproar among the men of the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was their office, study, living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, bath, and laboratory—all in one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In acknowledgment of the University of California’s tolerant hospitality toward a laboratory that was now devoted almost entirely to government work, Lawrence dubbed the new unit the calutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I think you will enjoy working in our laboratory complex.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On the night the bombing began, Mr. Loomis was working late in the laboratory. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We have landed two automated laboratories on its surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had been a dog in a city, a policeman would have shot him and sent his head to a laboratory, to see if he had rabies. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Another, larger laboratory with a second door leading out and, in the middle, a glass tank shaped like a barrel, filled with green liquid. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He shared his doubts with no one, but he took the bottle to his laboratory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting hired by the laboratory as a professional mathematician had been an important and groundbreaking stride for the black women— for all of Langley’s women, of course. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If money came in he bought laboratory equipment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z None could equate this engaging young man with the stereotypical aged, graybearded laboratory scientist of their fancies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The idea was to be able to observe what was going on in Dewey’s now-famous laboratory. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The only way he could maintain his own independence and creativity was by working very late at night, when he could have the run of a great laboratory almost to himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z 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 In places like Osage County, where there was no coroner trained in forensics and no crime laboratory, poisoning was a perfect way to commit murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her showdown with John Becker was the kind of gambit that the laboratory expected, encouraged, and valued in its promising male engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Thus, our spittoons and garbage dumps joined our latrines to form the first agricultural research laboratories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As required by law, he had tested the chemical on laboratory animals and submitted the results with his application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I walked out the back door to the laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The most speculative option involved element 94, that purportedly hyperfissionable substance discovered in Lawrence’s laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The front door to the laboratory was open, but many others remained closed, like Anne Wythe Hall, a dormitory for single white women working at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Yet he was not quite at the goal: simple math told him that reaching that energy would require a linear tube many meters in length—“rather awkwardly long for laboratory purposes.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “This war is being fought in the laboratories as well as on the battlefields.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If he could have had a fragment of mesarthium to experiment on in his laboratory, he would have been spared these late-night outings, this risk of discovery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But a few days later he discovered that he had trouble remembering almost every object in the laboratory. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They could hear the music from the laboratory at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Others are in the stage of laboratory testing. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Granddaddy toiled on with me at his elbow whenever I could escape to the laboratory with him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Calpurnia,” Granddaddy called up the stairs, “will you come out to the laboratory with me? I require your assistance if you’re not otherwise engaged.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There was a small party in the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never known that my early performances and tests in the laboratory were filmed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He orders the cadets in Werners class to collect hinged metal boxes from a locked cabinet at the back of the laboratory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was all a part of the racial relations laboratory that was Langley, and it meant that both blacks and whites were treading new ground together. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We had, in a way, to learn all over again how to get along, for although the world outside the laboratory was the same, we ourselves were different. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I was given a tour of the research and development laboratory for General Mills, the sixth-largest food company in the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They were going to have the newest microscopes and chemistry equipment for their laboratory. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Space Task Group set up shop on Langley’s East Side in some of the laboratory’s oldest buildings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To understand its effect on birds one need only remember that in laboratory experiments on quail dieldrin has proved to be about 50 times as poisonous as DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But laboratory animals give more prompt results, and after the two years it was evident that this miticide was indeed a carcinogen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In addition to teaching, König worked in a laboratory in Berlin, where he was busy creating new sabotage equipment. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I resent Nemur’s constant references to me as a laboratory specimen. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The electric lights, the various mechanical pieces spread across the worktable, the shelf of neatly labeled solvents—the tinkerers laboratory is a completely different world than the one I was used to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Finally, reluctantly, everyone agreed to spend one more day in the laboratory and leave early the next night. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z These mice had been born in the laboratory and for all their lives they had been kept free of all germs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a year after the end of the war, the familiar announcements of vacancies at the laboratory, including openings for computers, began to appear in the newsletter again. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was threatening to shoot Edward, as he had in the laboratory, where he had been guarding the door leading out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z With his overgrown curls and faded jeans, Dr. Morales looked more like a singer in a rock band than a person who worked in a laboratory. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z “We needed a central laboratory devoted wholly to this purpose, where people could talk freely with each other.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In Lawrence’s flat- management paradigm, there would be no titles among rhe scientists at Livermore, no pecking order among the PhDs on the laboratory floor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even so, he had no intention of abandoning his interest in the other laboratory problems. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z No sooner had Sherwood Butler, the laboratory’s head of procurement, set the final brick on a new building than his brother, Melvin, set about filling it with new employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As additional proof from other laboratories and experiments accumulated in the 1950s, even the most hidebound skeptics had to convert into believers.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Shouts and footsteps echo from inside the laboratory. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The laboratory to which Mr. Loomis reported the next day was eighty feet underground, a place as big as a house, hollowed out of a mountainside of solid rock. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The Fellowship Board would, however, look favorably on a proposal that I transfer to the cell-physiology laboratory of Caspersson in Stockholm. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was, in fact, a laboratory, with a lot of equipment at one end that I didn’t understand at all then—bottles and shiny metal things and black boxes with wires trailing from them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And if that much money was involved, he certainly would have planned more thoroughly and known when the laboratory’s next shipment of plague medicine would arrive. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The original Watson and Crick model of DNA, with its hammered metal plates and rickety rods twisting precariously around a steel laboratory stand, is housed behind a glass case. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He went out of the microscope room, closing the door behind him, and hurried down a hallway to the laboratory where he had worked with the material. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice was raving about some failure of the laboratory and I felt a swift uneasiness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For seven years after that she ruled the most unlikely of realms: a room full of black female mathematicians, doing research at the worlds most prestigious aeronautical laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was like a laboratory, maybe, or a museum. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In contrast, the ‘maker’s knowledge’ principle implies that if I do make a vacuum in a laboratory then I have a real understanding of what it is that I have made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So he must mean she is keeping it on a private one: either the one in her office or the one in the laboratory Tori told me about. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “The Berkeley laboratory, I felt, would continue as long as Ernest Lawrence lived, provided it received proper financial support from the government,” he wrote later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Now for a look at the workshops,” she cried, whisking him through another door and into a large abandoned laboratory full of old pieces of equipment, all untended and rusting. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He asked Mr. Loomis, as soon as the door was shut, if he would like to come and work with him in the secret laboratory. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Three or four such parties, he thought, and he would lose the laboratory. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The years of research, the magic symbols, the strange words, and the laboratory equipment . . . none of this had made an impression on the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it looked like a mad scientist’s laboratory because Bunny had shown it to me when it was unoccupied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He imagines himself as a tall white- coated engineer striding into a laboratory: cauldrons steam, machinery rumbles, complex charts paper the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We’ll rig up an operating room in the laboratory here, and take pictures of Burton.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One night when i joined Granddaddy in the laboratory, I found that he had had a breakthrough of sorts with his liquor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z But these were laboratory experiments, still a long way from practical application. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles, as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought science was all experiments and laboratories,” I admit. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z To keep moving forward, they needed to take advantage of every opportunity to make themselves as valuable as possible to the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He obviously did not want to tell what happened, since in his own story of the laboratory, and the suit, and his trip to Chicago he never mentioned Edward at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Lawrence had run the Rad Lab frugally—for a laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The old treasury. The vault was moved years ago. This was converted into a laboratory.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As it turned out, Eliza had a bizarre accident in which she sliced open her hand at the laboratory where she worked and had to have surgery to repair the extensive damage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But the shift in attitude and in public responsibility at the laboratory were as distinct in character as the golden age of aeronautics of the 1950s would be from the space-age 1960s. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Lawrence could also take pride in the cyclotron’s improved reputation as a reliable laboratory instrument. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gandhi’s years in South Africa became a laboratory, as he experimented with how to be a truthful, free person. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z How many times in the last five years have the members of your family, including yourself, had any kind of laboratory test? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking here from his laboratory, he came south; he went no farther than this. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “It is expected that outstanding students will be offered positions in this laboratory.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I threaded my way through the Outside Cats milling on the back porch and headed for the laboratory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He’d run from his laboratory with his shard of mesarthium clutched in his hand, desperate to find Strange and tell him...tell him what? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The shuttle conveyed the recruits to the door of the laboratory’s Service Building on the campus of Langley Field. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Good time!” said Doc and he went back to the laboratory with his cold beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z United States scientists have had some encouraging early results with the melon fly and the oriental and Mediterranean fruit flies in laboratory tests in Hawaii and field tests on the remote island of Rota. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He was sitting in his laboratory on a dilapidated armchair, the oozing stuffing mined by mice. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Over at the laboratory, Doc had a little whiskey after his beer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The laboratory lights hit a brown mark on his hand. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In the workshop, which he shared with Melquíades’ mad laboratory, he could barely be heard breathing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And though few realized it, the same thing was happening in laboratories around the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Many women tendered their resignations during their pregnancies and reapplied to the laboratory when they were ready to work again, hoping they would find a way to wrangle back their old jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I’m Ms. Unique, and this is my laboratory.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The committee also recommended more adequate controls to ensure that chemicals were adequately tested under field as well as laboratory conditions before being put on the market. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Frankie didn’t often sleep at the laboratory but he spent his days there. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The women of West Computing were the only black professionals at the laboratory— not exactly excluded, but not quite included either. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z If Edward had taken the suit, and left, and never come back, he would, in effect, have doomed Mr. Loomis to stay in the laboratory—perhaps forever—probably forever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “In a minute. He didn’t care anything about those Africans. They could have been rats. He was in a laboratory testing himself— proving he could work on human dogs.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The curtains were drawn at the laboratory that night and Gregorian music played until two o’clock and then the music stopped and no one came out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The reasons, York surmised, were Teller’s association with Livermore and the AEC’s “absurdly strict secrecy policy,” which prevented the issuance of even a simple clarification of the roles of the two laboratories. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No effort, however, was required to see that my laboratory manipulations were less skillful than those of a Swiss chemist. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z One of the most brilliant engineers on the laboratory’s staff took an active interest in standing up to the prejudice he saw around town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was enough for him to hear the rocking laughter of Pilar in the kitchen to run and take refuge in the laboratory, where the artifacts of alchemy had come alive again with Úrsula's blessing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Cooksey “brought a certain idolization of Lawrence into the laboratory,” Livingston observed more than thirty years after his departure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But Jean de Satigny held him in mysterious regard and was training him to be his assistant in the laboratory. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists at the Department of Agriculture laboratory in Orlando, Florida, are now sterilizing the housefly in laboratory experiments and even in some field trials, using chemicals incorporated in suitable foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course, we four black men were much too modest to make our contribution known, but we often wondered what went on in the laboratories after that secret disaster. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will work in the laboratory after dinner. Every night. Even Sundays.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s flavor created from chemicals in a laboratory. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Stories will be told about me, Strange. You should appreciate that. There ought to be adventure in them, don’t you think? It’s a dull legend that takes place in a laboratory.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The answer may be contained in recent laboratory experiments carried out by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She had done much to transform the position of computer from a proto-clerical job into one of the laboratory’s most valuable assets. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “They were in the mountain laboratory. The young enthusiastic scientists had all ganged up on that cynical old scientist who didn’t want to help.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Yet between April 1958 and December 1961 several hundred chemicals were screened at the Orlando laboratory for a possible sterilizing effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All of them had at one time or another gone over to the laboratory for advice or medicine or simply for unprofessional company. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In search of her missing cups, spoons, and mixing things, Mom came down, looked over my laboratory, sighed, and went down to the Big Store to buy replacements. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And he came to the laboratory every day. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered aloud whether it might ever “really be an important laboratory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The laboratory shelves were crammed with scores of bottles, the inspiring—or depressing—results of years of work, depending on your point of view. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When that pool’s numbers grew too small to warrant maintaining a section, the laboratory simply distributed the stragglers into other sections and passed their outstanding assignments along to West Computing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “For a while, after the Purity War, all the laboratories were underground, to keep them safer if they were attacked. Now it’s just the support staff who goes down here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z They knew that the air outside was poisonous with radioactivity, and they had in their laboratory the only suit in the world that would protect against it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Mother knew Granddaddy didn’t have a prior engagement, but there was always the siren song of his laboratory or the library. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I went up to my laboratory, but I didn’t feel like performing any experiments. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In showing that many alchemical recipes can indeed be performed in a modern laboratory, these scholars have rendered apparently incomprehensible texts meaningful and reinstated alchemy as a laboratory science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For all that, Lawrence remained unmistakably the animating force at Livermore, which soon acquired the operational features of a classic Lawrence laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Many of the leading institutions of this country and abroad are now engaged in building laboratories similarly equipped,” Lawrence noted. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I remember the hospital entrance, the stolen ID tag and the stairwell and the laboratory, the long fall, my knife thrown at the captain, the sewers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Just before my birthday party had started, Chapter Eleven had been down in his basement laboratory, using a hacksaw on a newfangled Titleist that advertised a “liquid center.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He and Mr. Loomis were locked up in the underground laboratory, apparently alone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It is created in a laboratory by adding genes to corn DNA. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z How could anyone subject Freud’s concept of the unconscious to a laboratory test? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The Warehouse Building, a brand-new space on the west side of the laboratory, a part of the campus that was still more wilderness than anything resembling a workplace, could be just the thing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His response came at a reception in July at Berkeley’s elegant Claremont Hotel, marking Livermore’s launch as a national laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By honoring both the invention of an essential instrument for large-scale research and the creation of a laboratory model to put it to use, the Nobel committee validated a sea change in science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The animal was subjected to exhaustive laboratory tests. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Of course, the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV, which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1951, Maurice Wilkins gave a scientific talk at the Zoological Station in Naples—at the laboratory where Boveri and Morgan had once worked on urchins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The claws will attach the box to the second set of laboratory doors. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As the aeronautical laboratory expanded west to meet the demands of the war, its twin, Langley Field, sought to grow in order to accommodate the Army Air Corps’ booming operation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the twenty-four years since the Langley laboratory had started operation, the glitterati of the aeronautical world had made pilgrimages to Hampton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He sent some tubes of frozen serum to laboratories for testing—to the National Institute of Virology in Sandringham, South Af- rica, and to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also a natural laboratory for rapid virus evolution, and possibly it led to the creation of hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Langley people were busy people like her, running off after work to play on one of the laboratory’s sports teams or attend a club meeting or lecture. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The odors of the laboratory animals, dogs, monkeys, mice, spin me back into memories, and it is difficult to know whether I am experiencing a new sensation or recalling the past. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Nita stops by the door to the laboratories and scans her card. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z For most of its existence a small and contained operation, the NACA’s flagship laboratory was now a many-layered bureaucracy flush with new faces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This may result, according to laboratory tests, in destruction of 75 to 98 per cent of the cocoons present. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To Ernest, the discovery was more than a triumph of applied physics; it was a means of reminding the GAC of the Rad Lab’s standing as the preeminent high-energy laboratory in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since he’s familiar with the entire building, we’re in constant dread that he’ll take it into his head to go have a look at what used to be the laboratory. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Of course, he added, this was quite natural for a scientist who had achieved repeated triumphs with instruments scaled to fit on a laboratory bench. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “She has a private laboratory on the top level. Insane security measures protecting it. I was trying to get up there when they figured out what I was.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But the success of Los Alamos seemed to make Teller even more insistent about a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Shortly after Christmas, he managed to cadge on temporary loan from a laboratory colleague a magnet twice as powerful as his paltry four-inch model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Tall vent pipes on the roof discharged filtered exhaust air that was being pumped out of sealed biological laboratories in side the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern life, as at this cocktail party, the noise is not incidental, not a laboratory exercise. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Dorothy had never been one to linger over the past; the decade waiting in the wings promised to be one of the most interesting ever witnessed at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Both laboratories siphoned off Langley employees, including computers, for their startup staffs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z 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 When he wasn’t in the laboratory, he was either out hunting specimens or holed up with his moldering books in a dim corner of the library, where no one dared disturb him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Lawrence knew the Cavendish delegates were skeptical not only of his deuton theory but also of the cyclotron itself as a laboratory tool. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When Doc’s car came back to the laboratory, Mack and the boys secretly watched Hazel help to carry in the sacks of starfish. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He built his own laboratory, the first at Cambridge, but then engaged in the most bizarre experiments. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Rutherford had relocated to Montreal and a professorship at McGill University, which featured a lavishly equipped laboratory funded by a Canadian businessman, in an early example of scientific patronage by industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like him, they were dressed in white laboratory coats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z But even in ordering these building blocks into long-chain molecules, there has been substantial laboratory progress. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to my laboratory. I work here. Who are you?” she said, a little angry, a little frightened. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be just as easy to tell her what I saw in that old storage room, nestled deep in the Bureau laboratories. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The mechanic, a white man with many years of service at the laboratory, sabotaged Byrdsong’s experiment by incorrectly affixing the model to its sting in the tunnel’s test section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Many computers and other female employees at the laboratory exchanged the daily routine of office life for a full-time position at home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She carefully put down her work and trotted off to the laboratories. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “The first question,” he went on, “is what are the chances of laboratory contamination?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the building were a single large laboratory and a smaller lab for the “professor,” a room for experimental equipment, and a lecture theater. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he set about assembling the materials for a laboratory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z HeLa is still one of the most commonly used cell lines in laboratories around the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z |
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