| 单词 | model |
| 例句 | At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I grab the brain model and angrily peel back layer after layer on my own, the complicated names sticking on my tongue as I practice them. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in color, according to taste,” he remarked years later of the plum pudding model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It’s just that I thought we could look at some more modern poets this year and think about how they are writing and how we can use those poems as models...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z I wave that away and instead hold up my tray like a gameshow model to show Poe my lumberjack breakfast. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Maurice needed but a minute’s look at the model to like it. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He watched as it receded into the distance, growing smaller and smaller until it seemed to just float there, frozen in place, like a model plane hanging from a wire. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The Mosses’ licensing file was filled with reports calling them “model” foster parents and recommending they get more children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Merritt was convinced that the Mosses had been abusive, but the foster care supervisor said the Mosses were model foster parents who even taught the training classes for other foster parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The model wobbled uneasily, with molecules jammed too close together for comfort. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The curtain around the model’s dressing area opens and a tall guy in a blue robe walks out. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z This convinced us that something great was to happen, and threw me into an unusual flutter when I repaired to my guardian’s office, a model of punctuality. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “What an extraordinary thing! I always thought dancing improper, but it can’t be since I myself am dancing. For I am a model cow.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Sculpture is categorized according to whether it is carved or modeled and whether it is a relief or a free-standing statue. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, after he sets up Noah with canvases and paint—Noah couldn’t resist when Guillermo offered—Guillermo finds me in the yard, where I’ve started on the clay model for Mom’s sculpture. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He’s been a great role model for my students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Our team of more than a hundred fencers, with five Black kids and two Asians, was considered a model of diversity in the world of high school fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I saw the dust on the model ships, the rat holes on the divan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At first, Watson feared that her “sharp, stubborn mind, caught in her self-made...trap” would resist the model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Loving them and looking like a model for one are two different things, huh, chief?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He had left the woman in her bed, the man on the bedroom floor, the older child in her brightly colored bedroom, surrounded by toys and half-finished models. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As always, Durham presented itself as a model of tolerance and racial goodwill in housing, but a Duke sociology student found real estate agents there performed the same tricks used across the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe their reluctance to utter anything romantically optimistic, or even to mention models, was due to fear of a sharp retort from Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A good example of this was Einstein, who called the cosmological constant, which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe, the biggest mistake of his life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s still possible to compare newly emerged alphabets of the past with previously existing ones, and to deduce from letter forms which existing ones served as models. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, by this time neither of us really wanted to look at our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She looked like she could be the model for some hair product. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Thomson proposed a structural model for the atom in which his negatively charged electrons were suspended within an undifferentiated positively charged mass, like bits of fruit within a soft custard. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models perform too poorly to be useful. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She put a shaking hand inside the bag and drew out a tiny, perfect model of a dragon — a Welsh Green. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “This model of glider take man into sky’’ Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look at this model,” she said, holding up a fashion magazine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Other globs of verbal fat include the metaconcepts we suctioned out in chapter 2, including matter, view, subject, process, basis, factor, level, and model. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Some of the beeswax he had used for his models had been left too near the furnace. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked on and on about the models his grandfather had given him, pointing out every little detail of his prized World War II fighter jet and the ugly army-green one, a bomber. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The Copernican model got rid of Ptolemy’s celestial spheres, and with them, the idea that the universe had a natural boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Forgot Wood was a model guy. Just like you.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To my relief, Sir Lawrence not only made no objection but encouraged me to get on with the job of building models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was helpful for the generation of the theoretical models which explained air pressure and the vacuum, even if those models were unacceptable to Descartes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He talked about sportsmanship, and about how Mike Costello was a role model. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrapped shawls around her shoulders, draped herself with scarves, and struck silly poses like a model in a fashion magazine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Genie asked, because he figured a man who could dress like that, and buy roller skates and twenty pairs of white socks, might also be a guy who sold vintage model car parts. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Don Hume set the model, taking huge, smooth, deep pulls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We walk past Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and Madame Tussauds, a tourist trap with wax models of celebrities that people take selfies with and share on Facebook. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I had always been a school leader, a role model. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time he gave her a table lamp whose base was a model one foot high of the famous “Iron Maiden of Nuremberg.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the women who’d made the record-breaking flight in the Rodina weren’t just dazzling celebrities: they were also safe role models. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Local physicians didn’t want to hear that their model TB program had a flaw. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Not too much later, a clean Ralph, with all-new clothes, left a deluxe model on the kitchen counter, with a red bow. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Regarding Fischer as a mentor and a role model, Lopsang even started wearing his hair in a ponytail, as Fischer did. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z This was the time of hygiene lectures, and of practicing blanket-baths on life-size models—Mrs. Mackintosh, Lady Chase, and baby George whose blandly impaired physique allowed him to double as a baby girl. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I came to see the new model,” Meme said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “A photograph. I will use it to model a new statue set. Children are so popular, you see. Everyone loves children.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Lying low made sense because we were up the creek with models based on sugar-phosphate cores. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was a miniature model of the Greasy Grass River, the hills to the east of the village site, and the flood plain where the village had stood. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He brought the construction kit of the Spanish galleon model, and worked at it in here. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I look for old- model vans painted in matte, their tires always bald. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee Chong’s grocery, while not a model of neatness, was a miracle of supply. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Or they make jokes about the models in Life Drawing, who change from night to night. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The mathematics to model a trait controlled by five or seven genes, Fisher discovered, was not all that complex. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z To Watson and Crick, the double-helix model of DNA—with two complementary “yin-yang” strands counterposed against each other—instantly suggested a mechanism for replication. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Part of our role, as we understood it, was to model reason, compassion, and consistency. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There was no model for the type of man he wanted to become. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nel watched her mother cutting the pattern from newspapers and moving her eyes rapidly from a magazine model to her own hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I am Ayesha Farooq, and I’m Pakistan’s first female fighter pilot. I scored the highest possible marks on my air force exam, and I say instead of looking up to role models, be one yourself.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Faced with an old Roman calendar that was itself drifting out of sync with the solar year, he recognized the Alexandrian calendar as a worthy model for a proposed revision. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The next scientific step was to compare seriously the experimental X-ray data with the diffraction pattern predicted by our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Every person who bought a particular model of television came to believe that TV shows had become particularly mean-spirited of late, and they all canceled their cable and took to other hobbies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z One big idea behind finding your model was that when you did, you’d glimpse your future. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The experimental data would generate the models, not the other way around. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He knew all about science, about model rocketry, chemistry sets, baseball cards, about American history. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Kelly modeled George with a book, and shot close- ups of the spaces between her fingers. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He even hoped to build a mechanical model that would illustrate his theory of the tides. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For the final part of our tour, Miss New Jersey takes us to the Miss America stage to practice our model walk. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The goal of previous astronomers had been to construct mathematical models that would successfully predict the location of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So North probably saw not a working model, or even a maquette, but a drawing—hence his insistence that he had only seen it in model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The teacher begins class—a different girl model today—lecturing about positive and negative space, about drawing the space around a form to reveal a form. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Maurice was busy when, just before four, I walked in with the news that the Pauling model was far off base. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I looked at the model, its black stone faces and great white peak, and I felt tiny and terrified and alone, alone, alone. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Anyway, you could pick an artist you like and model your self-portrait on their work. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z For three thousand dollars additional, get the personalized electric-eye model that calls each student by name. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Similarly, in Friedmann’s model the speed at which any two galaxies are moving apart is proportional to the distance between them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The letters tell of his company’s elaborate computer model, his financial expertise and inside contacts. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk the top row like a model strutting down a runway. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They take pains to explain that ants are not, emphatically not, tiny mechanical models of human beings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But that can’t be the original. It’s too small. A prototype, maybe. A defective model.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z For my science project, I’m going to make a model of the moon’s surface and perform an experiment to infer how the moon’s impact craters were formed. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Despite it being an older model than the one Manny drove, seeing it makes Jus want to make a run for it. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He looks for models to hire but has trouble. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She presses inward on the tiny front door, and a hidden catch releases, and the little house lifts up and out of the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So while Francis continued thinking about the meaning of the X-ray diagram, I began to assemble the various atomic models into several chains, each several nucleotides in length. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They were lovely: long, thin, white, like the fingers of a model. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But although he speculated that the atom was mostly empty space rather than a homogenous mass speckled with charged nuggets, he had not yet conceived an alternative model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He studies the clay model beside the large rock, then closes his eyes and combs the surface with his fingers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It is almost impossible to catch a speedy invisible model automobile even when one is a skillful dentist. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Why would there be a “natural” generation between us and our models? Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She struts around the rack like a fashion model. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But such a model becomes increasingly complicated as we try to describe the behaviour of things further and further away from Earth, across the Solar System. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z If he could make a galleon model it would last a long time, they were difficult. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z First, that each planet, plus the Sun and Moon, had to be treated separately in the model, with its own offset from the Earth and its own epicycles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There was a plaster model of the Eiffel Tower in there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Inside her, grand castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z He told me over and over again that becoming a successful attorney and thereby a model of achievement for my people was the most worthwhile path I could follow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A high official conducted the ceremony and he talked too long about philosophers and models of virtue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite Erasmus’s best efforts, Cicero’s model held more or less continuous sway up to the nineteenth century. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She struck a model’s pose and batted her eyelashes. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z By studying the mathematical relationships—the ratios—between the various kinds of progeny produced by each cross, Mendel could begin to construct a model to explain the inheritance of traits.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Naively I thought that he himself would make a good model for a biographical sketch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All over he looks fragile, the model of someone grieving. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an old model Ford, long and wide, a dark color I couldn’t discern in the moonlight. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It used to be sedate wood-rimmed glass counters, with gloves in standard models, appropriate wristwatches, accent scarves in floral prints. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the ruined Wari walls were covered with ruined model walls. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the dusty light Hugo saw broken model ships and heads of statues and old signs and piles of shattered doors. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day the post had brought a note from Maurice to Francis, mentioning that he was now about to go full steam ahead on DNA and intended to place emphasis on model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The phrase on the aspir- ational level adds nothing to aspire, nor is a prejudice reduction model any more sophisticated than reducing prejudice. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z According to my math model, he will take 24 to 28 days to be adopted. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He politely made his way to the model and stopped right next to Carmen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “The model was standing high on a lab table,” Wilkins later recalled. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A “grand canonical ensemble” is, oddly enough, the proper term for a quantitative model system in thermodynamics, borrowed from music by way of mathematics. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Wegener investigated the many plant and fossil anomalies that did not fit comfortably into the standard model of Earth history and realized that very little of it made sense if conventionally interpreted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Genie took it, more than a little nervous about Grandpop knowing about what had happened to Uncle Wood’s fire engine model. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The model is seated on a chair between them, face front, bare feet flat on the floor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Two little kids chase each other by the lion cub model, annoying an older boy doing homework. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The time had not yet come to press Rosy and Gosling about building models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Francis did not want to surrender immediately, so he went through some of the actual details of how we went about the model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Vectors depicting advanced computer-aided design models for amazing new skyscrapers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “Ooh! Who? One of those models at your school in New York?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Pizarro explicitly modeled his ambush of Atahuallpa on the successful strategy of Cortes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His name was derived from his serial initials, of course, but it was apt, nevertheless, for the SPD models were among the fastest robots turned out by the United States Robot & Mechanical Men Corp. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Since the antipodes are known to exist, this traditional model must be wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And with the sugar-phosphate backbone placed on the outside, and the general parameters of the measurements ascertained, the model builders could begin the most exacting phase of model building. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Small, rudely fashioned models of farmhouses and farmyards covered the top of the butte. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Further, one of my students, Raymond Laflamme, found that in a slightly more complicated model, the collapse of the universe was very different from the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My intent is not to honor these passages as if I were bestowing a prize, nor to hold them up as models for you to emulate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The people on TV—the models and actors—were super-skinny, especially the young women. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Then he releases my hand for me to model my belle-of-the-ball gown. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z In Friedmann’s models, the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other—so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The classic model for understanding what it means to lose the ability to mind-read is the condition of autism. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She rechecks the little house under her pillow and fights the temptation to take out the stone and instead reinstalls the house inside the model city at the foot of her bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z With a sharp sense of style, they stripped Joel Moskowitz’s shoe store of its higher- priced and more fashionable models, leaving only some orthopedic offerings and a few Florsheims. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “And here’s our hero!” said Kelly, smiling and holding her hands out as if she were a model presenting a new car on a game show. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z It looked like a relatively simple problem—but it was fiendishly difficult to build a simple model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My brother, on the other hand, has posters of “super models” and cars and beer and things like that on the walls in his room. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He had got a model village kit and toy spear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Many French intellectuals were already discussing the possibility of a political revolution in the years preceding 1789, and after 1776 the American Revolution presented them with a model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jutta’s husband, Albert, is a kind, slow-moving, and balding accountant whose great passion is running model trains in the basement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The room-sized machines were remaking the old models of aeronautical research; their ascendance marked the beginning of an era that promised to be even more momentous than the one ushered in by the flying machine. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion, as in the inflationary models. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At one end of the public area was a large-scale model of the entire trail, which, had I seen it before I started, might well have dissuaded me from attempting such an ambitious undertaking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z They laughed, and moved back into the workshops, where a later, more advanced model of the intention craft was awaiting their inspection. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Black and brown young people, old people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike need role models to show that their dreams are possible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Stopping with her legs crossed, she felt like a model. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “My dad modeled it after an old James Bond movie,” I tell them, hoping to maybe redeem my father for them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I mean, obviously I’d be a model. I’ve been on the cover of Teen Vogue twice. These genetics transcend all circumstance.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I certainly wouldn’t be keeping any model jeeps and choppers to remember the war going on, but JimmyTrotter thought his Red Tail war hawks and his brother’s bomber jets were just grand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This was a military model, loud, with a great fan anchored perpendicularly to the rear. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “The very model of modern-day, space-saving efficiency. The height of style and comfort, of convenience and practicality. I give you the Murphy bed.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Greek intellectual world, on the other hand, was almost frantically preoccupied with competing models of the ultimate configuration and substance of the cosmos. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z At recess the day after ordering, we got handed out to us coloring books, paint sets, model kits. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave me a real positive role model to follow. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then there were those questions about why we wanted to track down our models at all. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This philosophy—the interchangeability of music, math, and nature—led to the earliest Pythagorean model of the planets. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She increased the dimensions of the model, then showed Arachne how it could be created—strands of material woven into strips, then braided into a long cylinder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Most of the models simply outlined walls, fences, and doors with loose stones, but some were elaborate constructions complete with plastic model cars, toy animals, and thatch roofs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The whole animal, or ecosystem, stuck for the time being halfway along in evolution, appears to be a model for the development of cells like our own. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he feels the best way to learn how to draw people is from live models, not from pictures or artists’ statues. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I write about the Red Cross and the threatening announcement and the meticulous preparation for the visit that is supposed to showcase Mobius as a camp upon which all future camps can be modeled. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Like Stead, civic authorities throughout the world saw the fair as a model of what to strive for. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She returns the stone inside the model house and restores the wooden panels that make up its roof and twists the chimney back into place and puts the house into the pocket of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even on horseback, Hazel felt tiny and insignificant, as if they were moving through a model city constructed by the gods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z This meant, at least in theory, you’d be able to find the person you were modelled from. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They spent hours building model airplanes, talking and dreaming about cars, and playing on the school’s softball team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In so many ways, the very model of the gentleman for me was an Englishman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Weeks ago, while taking measurements for the model, the locksmith saw this same man atop the ramparts pointing a camera out to sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I used to make my sister model for me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only actresses and models have head shots like that. Was she an actress?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In doing so, I could not refrain from pointing out the superficial resemblance between Pauling’s three-chain helix and the model that Francis and I had shown her fifteen months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, there seemed no indication that he thought the answer would come from playing with molecular models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In their rush to build a model, they had even forgotten Franklin’s first discovery: the remarkable “wetness” of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Markham took the news quite casually when I walked into his office and told him that he might acquire a model student who would never bother him by cluttering up his lab with experimental apparatus. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It lifts free of the model easily, as though designed to do so. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He would be driving a different Crown Victoria—the charcoal gray unmarked model reserved for detectives—and wearing a shoulder holster instead of a hip belt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In his home he hung Nazi flags in prominent locations and displayed airplane models of Messerschmitts and Junkers as well as an oil painting of Adolf Hitler and other memorabilia from the Third Reich. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had exactly enlarged the handle in his wax model. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone over it on the dining room table, showing his mother where they would be, but looking down on it now, it seemed to be almost a model made of the map. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z It contained thirty-two pages of photographs showing models wearing brassieres, corsets, garter belts, and stockings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then Father and I would cut the bamboo strips and the rice paper and slowly construct the model. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no disabled role models for a young boy trying to work out what sort of man he could become. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z She had stuck golden star stickers on her model where all the sidewalks were. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z That’s why, when you were out there yourself—in the towns, shopping centres, transport cafés—you kept an eye out for “possibles”—the people who might have been the models for you and your friends. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They said I am a role model for the family and hopefully for the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z She asks if I want to be a model. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Remember in fifth grade you did that model of a slave ship for art class?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Leonardo’s drawing is clear enough for a model of the machine to have been built and demonstrated to be functional. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The enemy\\ Honestly — who was the one who was all excited when they saw him arrive? Who was the one who wanted his autograph? Who’s got a model of him up in their dormitory?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Every time I’d see a commercial for Dark & Lovely with those gorgeous black models and their swinging, straight, shoulder-length hair, I’d beg for Pop Pop to give me the money to get a perm. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He told me to return it to the store for another model. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Every two years, Mr. Nielsen tells me, he trades in his car for a new model. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He went up to the table with the models and stood there for a moment. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Every trait, in Mendel’s model, was determined by an independent, indivisible particle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We owe to him indispensable phrases which encapsulate powerful arguments, such as ‘unintended consequence’ and ‘self-fulfilling prophecy’; one of his phrases, ‘role model’, has moved out of the university into daily speech. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We should be practical. Face it, I am a much better size as a model.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Levittown was a factory town, and the schools proceeded along a factory model of efficiency. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The question was, how to put the strands together and make a model of an enigmatic molecule? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally, by the middle of December, he finds some models, and he paints a head of a “splendid old man” in profile, filling up most of the canvas, a different style for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Watson and Crick built their complete model in the first week of March 1953. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Like the real Krum, the model was slightly duck-footed and round-shouldered, much less impressive on his splayed feet than on his broomstick. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Most of us were born in this country; we had no other models. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks out at us with astonishing directness, as if he were reading us with the same intensity that we bring to bear on his strongly modeled features. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One couldn’t be sure, but the impression was there that any model placing the sugar-phosphate backbone in the center of a helix forced atoms closer together than the laws of chemistry allowed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If only the King’s groups had thought about models, they would have asked which salt was present and we would not be placed in this tiresome position. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Now the young ones are looking up to me as a role model, so I try my hardest to give a straight image on how things should be, and make them see right from wrong. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But football games were not won with noble role models and the cotton candy that college presidents liked to spin out for the media. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Kenya could be a model, if I’m completely honest. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “With pleasure,” I replied; and I felt a thrill of artist-delight at the idea of copying from so perfect and radiant a model. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I carved the model out of balsa wood, and painted it in red and white racing colors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Great Britain delivered locomotives and ship models, including an exquisite thirty-foot replica of Britain’s latest warship, Victoria, so detailed that even the links of chain in its handrails were to scale. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like men meeting a fashion model, they trained their eyes away from my body and pretended to be interested in me as a person. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My mind closed down and I came immediately back to my bed, my room coalescing around me, my desk and chair, my little chest of drawers, the books and model airplanes suddenly so terribly real. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I remember when I applied for a job at El Encanto, the director wanted me to be a model, to walk up and down the aisles in gowns and hats draped with chiffon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was no new model, and on numerous occasions during their trip Cora feared it was on the verge of collapse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I pushed back his stack of papers, his brain model, and the glass-encased fossils so I could work. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z This model was also equipped with built-in lifts and an amorphous surface, so that it could simulate walking up inclines and staircases. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The same indifferent response accompanied my hurriedly delivered summary of our attempts to get DNA by model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The third concept from Merriam’s model concerns our behavior as performers, audience members, listeners, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The teacher meets the model at the door and motions for him to go out into the hall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Touch says I’m...dating a French model?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They both had on floral-print dresses with lacy socks folded down over shiny Mary Janes and looked like child models in doll commercials. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was a perfect little model of a lamp-post, about three feet high but lengthening, and thickening in proportion, as they watched it; in fact growing just as the trees had grown. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z We now know it is impossible to have an infinite static model of the universe in which gravity is always attractive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly: he looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We should therefore cut them out of the model and say that time had a beginning at the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They know how to do their hair and makeup and dress themselves because they’ve probably been taught by parents who understand they shouldn’t just copy whatever the white celebrities and models are doing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Design an appropriate program which models the supermarket situation with its various constraints and instruct the computer to run through the program a few million times to see how often different outcomes result. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The eighth graders laughed, but when I didn’t go away Gino said to me, “You here to play, or you here to model sportswear?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The glider was one of Fathers earlier models, without the rudder controls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z For I would see once more the blue spots on the china, the spun webs on the little masts of those model ships, and the rat holes on the sofa-bed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Every day some new detail emerges—each storm drain, park bench, and hydrant in the model has its counterpart in the real world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Wednesday led them all up some stairs, past life-sized models of the four horsemen of the apocalypse hanging from the ceiling, and they followed the signs to an early exit. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z We practice our model’s T and pivot turn. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He’s putting himself through the Art Institute here by being a male model for JCPenney catalogs and things like that. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, his predecessors had been quite happy to use two distinct models for each planet: one to calculate its movement from east to west, and the other its movement from north to south. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Ida B. Wells Club served as a model for the organization of the city’s black women who had time to spare. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The model had a tiny version of Two Scoops. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He showed us how to find the model number on each one. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I ripped the model off the pedestal and hurled it at the first dracaena. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Oliver Wood was crouched over a model of a Quidditch field in the corner, prodding little figures across it with his wand and muttering to himself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z No excess flesh, a flat belly, small behind and smaller bosom—Rachael had been modeled on the Celtic type of build, anachronistic and attractive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But there were elements of the Tychonic model that broke new ground, and it deserves more credit than it is usually given. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z No one in Avalon is half as pretty as the models. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He rapidly made a duplicate, for when the molten silver was poured in on the wax, it would melt and float away, so he made a model for each handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizabeth smirks, juts one hip out like a model, and waves a hand down the front of her chest. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Terrance Randall provided a model for a mind that could conceive of North Carolina’s new system, but the scale of the violence was hard to settle in her head. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We were working on our projects for Main Street, which is a scale model of a city block that were constructing in the back of our classroom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s like all the mannequins have been modeled after astronauts’ wives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never done this before and get lost in the exercise, concentrating on finding the model by drawing what is not her. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z This was my view, and I saw nonviolence in the Gandhian model not as an inviolable principle but as a tactic to be used as the situation demanded. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the silver pitcher out of the cloth he had wrapped it in and his own wax model and explained Mr. Hancock’s order. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For this aspect of their troubled genius Beethoven and his contemporaries had two irresistible fictional role models: Faust and Prometheus. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They modeled swimsuits in a line, each striking a pose. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z One of the primary purposes of the first clocks was to model the movement of the heavens, not just to tell the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was from the blue-collar mechanics, model makers, and technicians, many of whom hailed from local “sundown towns” such as Poquoson, where blacks were not welcome, that they usually caught hell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Young girls strutted their stuff, shaking it like Jell-O, proud to be voluptuous and not some bony Ford models. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When I modeled the zoot for Ella, she took a long look and said, “Well, I guess it had to happen.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Elegance is often a reliable guide to the usefulness of a model, but not an infallible one. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But he had already made smaller glider models for the three of us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My role models for writing were the ones we learned about in school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Those of us who did not know black liberation history and the ANC’s role in it still looked around for models to emulate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Modeling flight at transonic speeds was a particularly knotty problem, because of the subsonic and supersonic winds that passed over the plane or model simultaneously. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Even though she was in her eighties, she dressed like a fashion model. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z And I knew he was thinking of more than just making glider models. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When you looked around, where else did you see a single black role model, except in church? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I finish the model, hours later, Guillermo inspects it and then uses it to pencil different reference points on my practice rock that mark where I’ll cut in for “shoulders” and “heads.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The next few days saw Francis becoming increasingly agitated by my failure to stick close to the molecular models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The clerk said, "The models are glued together, see, and pasted on a board. So how else do you think they stay up?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Holmes became a model prisoner—became in fact the model of a model prisoner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On a few walks our enthusiasm would build up to the point that we fiddled with the models when we got back to our office. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He strove to make the ranch, called Ridgewood, a model of rustic self-sufficiency, complete with massive herds of cattle and sheep, several hundred horses, a dairy, a slaughterhouse, and fruit orchards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was my little dresser and the airplane models on top. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Crick told Watson that Pauling’s model was, in fact, the “product of common sense, not the result of complicated mathematical reasoning.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His model was intended as a way of achieving that and, on its own terms, it failed. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He's got a squirt gun, one of those big blaster models that holds about a gallon of water. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Genie’s head was still on the swivel, scouting the scene for model sellers, when Grandma touched his shoulder. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Hooper began to mould plasticine between his hands, for another layer to the geological model, standing on a board beside the window. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It takes a few minutes to power up because it’s not exactly the newest model, or even the newly old model. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Mrs. liked the green silk scarf we gave her and modeled it like she was showing off a mink coat on Let's Make A Deal. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Their old model black Mercedes was fussily maintained, the floor mats wavy from vacuuming, the leather seats shiny with polish. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It's one of the high-speed Capitol models that average 250 miles per hour. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He crawls to the end of the bed and looks at the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Charles modeled his own book after Paley’s, because he wanted The Origin to have the same effect on others that Paley’s had had on him when he first read it at Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My shoulders don’t create the sharp lines I’ve seen on actresses and models. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Bookshelves, the books inside them, and models of ships standing on the top of the shelves. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z What was worse was the virtual certainty that cessation of model building on our part would not be accompanied by a burst of corresponding activity in their lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As soon as she mentioned money I pretended to be distracted and fortunately, in the doctor’s office, there were plenty of plastic medical models of internal organs to study. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As he spoke, his hands moved deftly in the soft earth before him, molding a tiny model of hills, which Taran found easier to follow than Fflewddur’s map scratchings. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z A walking model of all the various styles of fine hand sewing and it didn’t worry me that I was only twelve years old and merely graduating from the eighth grade. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that revolvers of this particular model had a penchant for accidental discharge when bumped or dropped, so he loaded it with only five cartridges and kept the empty chamber under the hammer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z First, she shielded, with her palm, the bright red lipstick on the cover models face. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But there is even more to this story, since Galileo had received a letter from a former pupil, Benedetto Castelli, pointing out that if the Copernican model were correct Venus must show phases! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Our mother was our greatest role model and fiercest protector, and I was going to take a lesson from her; ignore the haters and the naysayers and just focus on being my best self. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z All of it suddenly as small as Papa’s model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Egypt was an important model for us, for we could witness firsthand the program of socialist economic reforms being launched by President Nasser. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he could find someone online in North Hill giving away models, and he could just do some surgery—take a wheel from something else and attach it to the red truck. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The basement in their North Logan home was an electronics graveyard that included Keith’s first Atari, an ancient model he’d sometimes pull out, disassemble, then solder back together as an improved version. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were “black Englishmen,” as we were sometimes derisively called. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The highlight of that Hot Seat came when Kevin asked Parr who was his hero, his role model. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Mistaken, the gullible reader will—in sympathy or in anger—take it that I intend to model my life as the typical Hispanic-American life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea was elaborated by Ptolemy in the second century A.D. into a complete cosmological model. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The new inflationary model was a good attempt to explain why the universe is the way it is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then someone says something I don’t catch, but it makes the model smile and when he does, it’s like all his features shift and scramble into the most disordered face I’ve ever seen. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Copernicus didn’t think quite like that, but the problem of the Moon certainly made him uneasy about the Ptolemaic model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She stared at the model of the Parthenon on her computer screen and thought about the argument with Athena. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After Father got the first letter, he began to make larger glider models. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z No serious models were built, however, for several days. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It’s modeled after a school in Switzerland run by the behaviorist Emil Binder. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After the conference I gave a seminar on the inflationary model and its problems at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After the dancing segment, each girl walks like a model across the stage when her name is called, silently praying she won’t trip and fall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They argued over how fast each car could go and what models were better than others. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Once Grandpop had the gun completely apart, he lined the screws and bits of metal all out on the table like Genie always did when he was about to start building a model car. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Donovan considered, “Not much, I think. If Dave is like the preliminary model we saw back at the factory, there’s a special co-ordinating circuit that would be the only section involved.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In so many ways, theater teaches the opposite of what I learned in sports, in which the model is that there is no self, no emotional landscape or core. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I model myself after Father, and there’s no one in the world I love more. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z By Saturday noon, Johnny, following Mr. Revere’s advice and his curve, had got the model of the handle exactly right. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the experimental evidence known to us could not yet distinguish between two- and three-chain models, he wanted to pay equal attention to both alternatives. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The model wasn’t there yet, I was in the room by myself, and then Susie walked in with her coat already off, and right after that Mr. Hrbik. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z While another line of kids boarded, Dana composed himself as if he were a model citizen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was constructing model molecules by connecting colored gumdrops that were supposed to represent atoms, but she got distracted pretending the gumdrops were the Beiderman’s eyes and she was stabbing them with the toothpicks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z "She was a super model! They're all like that!" snapped Ishtar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Rosy’s instant acceptance of our model at first amazed me. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Weston’s manners,” said Emma, “were always particularly good. Their propriety, simplicity, and elegance, would make them the safest model for any young woman.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z If the box that Leon Longbridge had used was a model, Sam’s needed one more thing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He joins drawing clubs so he can paint clothed and nude models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As we make our way to the main entrance, I see adults who remind me of Hollywood movie stars and fashion magazine models. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z And he made metal and wood models of two ideas to be sent to the patent office in the fall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z These schools were teacher preparation courses, usually with access to model schools where teachers in training could observe and practice teach. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Treasury Department uses a computer model to examine the effects of tax cuts on various income groups but does not look in detail fine enough to differentiate among those within the top 1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Occasionally, Francis would look disgusted when my daydreams kept me from observing that he needed my help to keep the model from collapsing as he rearranged the supporting ring stands. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We lay on the carpet with the Grasshopper model between us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “We have a few different models to choose from. Our company takes care of the hard part. Then we ship them out and the owners can move right in.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Worse, the structure modeled by Watson and Crick was so tightly packed that it could not accommodate any significant number of water molecules. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She closes her fist, walks into her room, and replaces the stone inside the model house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Odysseus now addressed Alkinoos: “O majesty, model of all your folk, your promise was to show me peerless dancers; here is the promise kept. I am all wonder.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust lets go of Mv model airplane On the TV. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis wanted no time lost in seeing whether a satisfactory three-dimensional model could be built, since the geneticists and nucleic-acid biochemists should not misuse their time and facilities any longer than necessary. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They argued that since there seemed to be infinitely more Friedmann-like models without a big bang singularity than there were with one, we should conclude that there had not in reality been a big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He developed a predictive model to understand planetary motions and decode the message in the skies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood five feet and nothing, but was well-built, like a scale model of Adonis, and with him arrived the stink of stale cigarette smoke. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z South Korea becomes the model for the rest of the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Dad focused on one of my model airplanes on my dresser. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My sister says the only reason Mom married him was to give me a male role model so I’d know how to grow up into a man, and so we wouldn’t be on welfare. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z You think of all the films you’ve seen, Audie Murphy and Gary Cooper and the Cisco Kid, all those heroes, and you can’t help falling back on them as models of proper comportment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The little flock of golden birds continued to twitter in circles around her head so that she looked like a strange, feathery model of the solar system. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The leading early investigator, G. K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You turned me into a model. Who knew?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “All the time we thought he was the model youth that anybody could trust a daughter with, until the police showed him up at his nefarious work.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He was always the model of old-fashioned manners, of course, but he could go off on strange and interesting tangents of conversation that I think Mother didn’t always find suitable in polite company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z How do you, another would-be user, then design something similar for your own use, knowing that other people have already got their own model built and working? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She set the three-wheeled model back on the dresser where it belonged and arranged the wheel chip next to it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The model was humped in the shape of a barrow, like one of those on the downs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z At first, they tried to salvage the essence of their first model, placing the phosphate backbone in the middle, and the bases projecting out to the sides. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z More and more, I tried to model myself after him, and I was pleased whenever anyone looked at the two of us and commented on how much we looked and even walked alike. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He was later to write: “Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ... Geometry is God Himself.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Linear statistical projections, to cite a frequently abused model, are often invoked so thoughtlessly that it wouldn’t be surprising to see someday that the projected waiting period for an abortion is one year. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The model man and the model family he left behind. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The robot in question, a simple MC model, lay upon the table, almost complete. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Thousands of space vehicles of every make and model were crawling through the starry blackness around me, everything from single-seater craft to giant moon-sized freighters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Slowly his attention returns to the scale model of the neighborhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Galton was not the first to attempt to model human heredity by measuring variation in humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Now we can switch from the naked eye to a microscope and peer into models of neural networks. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her shield is modeled after one her dad Zeus uses—also called Aegis—a gift from Athena. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Two years away from home, away from the shelter of her parents and the model of her older siblings, had given Christine the desire, and the confidence, to strike out on her own. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “He won’t even talk to me. Just shuts up in class, goes home and does his homework. Probably building model railways.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Leafing past the paintings, I would admire the photographs of the artists seated in their garrets, dressed in tattered smocks and frowning in the direction of their beefy nude models. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I stopped at the model homes area—four houses surrounded by the same white picket fence—and pulled off my glasses to clean them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents often learn the instrument along with the child, acting as musical role models, and maintaining a positive learning atmosphere for the child to succeed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Neither did I look like the role models in my life—my stepfather, my godparents, other relatives—all of whom were black. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening he felt the need for a live model and directed his wife to march around the room. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I want to become the role model that kids in my neighborhood lack and to someday have kids in my neighborhood look up to me the way that I look up to John Tu. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For the past two years this DNA was said to have the strange property of lacking cytosine, a feature obviously impossible for our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As the display swung down like a pendulum, the lion leaped off onto the model earth’s North Pole. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The Angkar says they are model citizens because many have never ventured out of their village and have not been corrupted by the West. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The phrase ‘in model’ is extremely rare, but a single sheet published in 1651 is described in its title as a summary of Christian doctrine ‘in model’: it is a wall-chart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Designing my own models was tantamount to architectural blasphemy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z And James, son of a cardiologist, was a model of healthy living. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “My uncle built the starship models when he was a kid.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Every part had been modeled and tested, even against the seismic shocks of shaky Northern California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I even made a model out of paper. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The bacteria are beginning to have the aspect of social animals; they should provide nice models for the study of interactions between forms of life at all levels. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Inspection of the model itself only increased her disdain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But that morning in Doña Charito's house, I was not ready yet to pose as one of the model children of the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It soon became obvious that this model created more problems than it solved—and the heavier the atom, the greater the problems. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I used to be a model student, skipped third grade and everything, but now I’m a troublemaker. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There in the rock is the curved back of a woman identical to the one on the clay model. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Intercity travel in North Korea had once been impossible without a travel permit, which would be stamped or folded into a “citizen’s certificate,” a passport-size document modeled after the old Soviet identification card. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z First, Dad’s video camera wasn’t one of the newer models, so the picture was lousy when it was dark outside. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He straightens from the model and is about to pat me on the shoulder before he catches himself. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Like Clarkebury, Healdtown was a mission school of the Methodist Church, and provided a Christian and liberal arts education based on an English model. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They saw the Pullman Company’s “Ideal of Industry” exhibit, with its detailed model of Pullman’s company town, which the company extolled as a workers’ paradise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Langley added state-of-the-art facilities on the West Side like the Seven-by-Ten-Foot High-Speed Tunnel and the Four-by-Four-Foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel, machines that could blast models with winds that approached or exceeded the mysterious speed of sound. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Genie had built a model just like it once. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But as I grew up, I understood that Malalai was a hero and a role model, and I wanted to learn something from her. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My model of coherent discourse is the original version of the text that I doctored for the opening of the chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One test required Mary to clamber onto the catwalk of the wind tunnel, measuring how rivets disrupted the airflow over a particular model. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The man and woman wept, and each of them kissed the wax model of a bird. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z In his immaculate and expensive black suit with gold signet ring and brightly polished black shoes, he looked like a scaled-down model of a multimillionaire businessman. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The model shoots him a malevolent look and clenches her jaw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have to tell them the make and model and insurance company.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 At this stage Francis’ interest began to perk up, and at increasing frequencies he would look up from his calculations to glance at the model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Bohr’s model corresponded to experimental observation only for the very simplest atom, hydrogen, which had only one proton and one electron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The brightly shining metal plates were then immediately used to make a model in which for the first time all the DNA components were present. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The problem is not that the clock radio feels underdressed, the problem is that I cannot bear to watch the numbers advance in the heartless way common to this particular model. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was also, reputedly, an early enthusiast for the Copernican model, although he published nothing on the subject himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z All we had to do was to construct a set of molecular models and begin to play—with luck, the structure would be a helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Jay carefully laid out all the pieces of his model airplane like they would break if he was rough with them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Delicately made models of creatures Harry did not recognize, all flapping wings or snapping jaws, hung from the ceiling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Samuel Adams’s master’s thesis was “delivered in flawless Latin,” Alexander Hamilton copied Demosthenes into his commonplace book, and Thomas Jefferson modeled his oratory on the prose of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When Maurice asked whether we needed the molds back in Cambridge, we said yes, half implying that more carbon atoms were needed to make models showing how polypeptide chains turned corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z So Howard opted to race unmodified stock models, exactly the same cars customers could buy off the dealer floor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It soon became the leading model for prisons in the United States. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And after the half-hour lesson would come the reward, when we would work at a model of a glider, imitating the pictures and schematics in the books. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Or at least Dylan, who’s dying to see the character I modeled after him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z With an on-the-job training program, he has made Sepia a model, edited, printed and distributed from the million-dollar Fort Worth plant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on to say he wanted to become a male model, his ultimate ambition was to be on the cover of GQ. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z First, it was well known that working with scale models could often be misleading, because full-size machines often performed quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I got up and walked over to my stronghold’s elevator, which I’d modeled after the turbolift on the original Star Trek series. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Before perspective drawing, if you wanted to design a piece of machinery, you had to make it, or make a model of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s how they want it. Now that you and your sisters are here, you can play along while I get back to my airplane models.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The really relevant experimental details were those which might provide clues in constructing molecular models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Franklin saw the model later that fortnight, and she too was quickly convinced. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As if all this time the city has been no more than a scale model built by her father and the shadow of a great hand has fallen over it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Once you’re done with the model,” she asks her father, “does that mean I can go out?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Back in his San Francisco office, Dr. Gazzaley pulls out a white plastic model of a brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But according to the approach I described in Chapter 1, a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The waving goddess stood outlined by the smoking metal wing as if she were a model in a showroom of plane wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When the client was moving, Zeitoun had seen it on his lawn, a standard aluminum model, and asked him if he was selling it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z As he did so, Hooper hurled the model away from him, across the room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She spends hours kneeling by herself on the sixth floor with the window open and the sea hurling arctic air into the room, her fingers on the model of Saint-Malo slowly going numb. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the second kind of model, which expands forever, space is bent the other way, like the surface of a saddle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because maybe somebody might be sellin’ model car parts at the market. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In 1627 Isaac Beeckman and his associates planned a programme of research using models to ascertain the relative merits of vertical and horizontal windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By and large, scientists use the simplest model they can which is consistent with all the facts relevant to a particular set of circumstances, and they don’t all use the same model all the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It was part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and was modeled after the Depression era’s Civilian Conservation Corps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Long before the invention of the World Wide Web, cognitive scientists modeled human memory as a network of nodes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Bathing suits itched her, and although she wore the most conservative models, with long sleeves and black stockings, she never felt modest in them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z As model building did not appeal to her, at no time did she mention Pauling’s triumph over the a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He showed her how to work with the mechanics to correctly position a model in the test section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Kepler distinguished between a geometrical hypothesis—the mathematical model used to generate predictions—and an astronomical hypothesis, the actual path of the planet through the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If it were right, however, the model would also accurately predict the relative intensities of the various X-ray reflections. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The one with the blue beads eyed me like she was studying the model at the Cro-Magnon exhibit. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s take Speedy’s case. Speedy is one of the latest models, extremely specialized, and as expensive as a battleship. It’s not a thing to be lightly destroyed.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z With his giant brush, he polished each tooth on the model, pointing out the proper path of the bristles on the teeth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The first farmers didn’t even have any existing crop as a model to inspire them to develop new ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z April was a recent graduate of BYU who modeled for a local diet center where she worked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Admired as a pathbreaker, Elizebeth is now regarded as a role model—a woman who excelled in a technical field through her courage, smarts, and grit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the first kind of Friedmann model, which expands and recollapses, space is bent in on itself, like the surface of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A large wire-framed model of a reindeer covered in twinkling lights stood in the front yard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And though military boot camp had been the model, it was arresting this time around to see how much it really was like prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What was particularly impressive about the full Copernican model of the Universe was that by putting the Earth in orbit around the Sun it automatically put the planets into a logical sequence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The last permission I need to be my own role model. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z To illustrate the important binomial probability model, and to provide a numerical example of a statistical test, imagine the following miniature test for ESP. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, he insisted on using one single mathematical model to account for a planet’s movement across the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With its waterfall curtains and carpets of forest, the canyon was like a long and beautiful room, and Weep a toy city—a gilded model—at its center. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a blue plaid button-down shirt, half tucked in like a J.Crew model. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The skiing woman, blond and pale skinned, the iconic model of postmodern femininity, was smiling and wearing sunglasses. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In Jacob and Monod’s model, in contrast, bacterial genes were strung together for a reason. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A model called the Nylon 66, no longer in production, it was a favorite of Alaska trappers because of its light weight and reliability. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the model boats in the cottage in the cove, and the feathery dust. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I let myself into the house and carried on making the Airfix Sherman tank model I was building. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, it's a watch. They stopped making them years and years ago. It has to be a model called a De Ville.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z To him, I was a model son who had supported his mother as long as he could. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Again she opens the model house and tips the stone into her palm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Cobwebs spun threads upon the ship's models, making their own ghostly rigging. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I laughed with him, hiding a secret twinge of regret — why did he have to look like a runway model when I couldn’t? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Also, there are no role models: fathers, brothers, sisters that get up and go to work every day and who are doing positive things. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had Johnny’s wax model in his hands—delicate hands to go with such heavy wrists. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Juan Perón, who later became Evita’s husband and the dictator of Argentina, studied Hitler and his Italian sidekick, Mussolini, as role models. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His work was so conscientious that the economic model he developed was pronounced reliable by experts at the Treasury Department and in think tanks on both the right and the left. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I could get Mom to model for me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really hope you’re the one who ordered the nude model, because the last house I went to let me strip down to my underwear before telling me they weren’t.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The rest of her seemed unalive, like a pale wax model of my mother: the woman who could not fight fire with fire, even to save her children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if he’s in college around here like the teacher said the girl model was. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray- Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Nobody would confuse her for a model, but what did that matter? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z On the day of my hearing he was supposed to sit with me and tell the judges that I had stayed out of trouble, had a good job, and was a model prisoner. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z This model explained quite well the structure of the simplest atom, hydrogen, which has only one electron orbiting around the nucleus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he thought about all the things he was lucky to see, like stars, and model cars, and Shelly, he knew for a fact Grandpop couldn’t have meant that. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Friday evening, when the light was failing and work over johnny took the silver pitcher and his own wax model and left the shop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d only been there once, with my dad a year and a half ago, but I still had my model airplane I got in the gift shop. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z She runs her fingers over the model in their kitchen, counting miniature benches, trees, lampposts, doorways. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He drew pictures, constructed models, built full-size prototypes—and not one of them worked. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In most models, there’s also a plugboard at one end. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Our models were an irrelevance, a technical necessity for bringing us into the world, nothing more than that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He tugs a string by the doorway and the movement reverberates throughout the room, the entire model circus sparkling as bits of metal catch the firelight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One of his graduate students must certainly know what his model looked like, and if there were obvious biological implications the rumor would have quickly reached us. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He was not an X-ray crystallographer and could not judge the model professionally. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z "What is it, like a model airplane or something?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to me to be the very model of the old-fashioned, stiff-necked, stubborn Afrikaner who did not so much discuss matters with black leaders as dictate to them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sandi wanted to look like those twiggy models. She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head. There are four girls, you know." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He copied the model of a Erewar German zeppelin, which lifted off by means of a ot-air system and could accommodate one or more passengers endowed with adventurous temperaments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor was there anything new about working with models: Desaguliers was building model steam engines by the 1720s, and he was surely not the first. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, I’m a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors’ orders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It’s the model of a brain he got for Christmas a couple of years ago. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z They start talking about photography—like Mom knows anything about photography!—and it doesn’t take long before she starts telling him how she used to model. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The lesson for our first rehearsal is how to walk across the stage like models. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Her stepfather prized insects as models and sent Maria outside to capture them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His posture seemed the model of graciousness and elegant accommodation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His first three models were large, clumsy, heavy instruments, but his final masterpiece was not much larger than a heavy pocket watch. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Uncle walked past Father, ducked under some models, and, slipping between the wall and the wing, eyed Dragonwings critically. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My rickety height and foal’s legs gave me the posture of a fashion model. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As a woman, she was a role model for girls like me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The man next to the dealer, with hair combed straight back, put down his cards and said, “Did you hear that? We got ourselves a model citizen.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So the TV was the same old model, the car that Charlotte drove was the same old model, the dishes and the silverware and the towels—all the same. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the sixth floor of Number 4 rue Vauborel, Marie-Laure crawls beneath her bed and clamps the stone and little model house to her chest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He still had things he had to take care of, like figuring out how to fix that wheel on the model truck, and the even more important task of catching a new Michael Jackson. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to be his role model. But maybe it’s the other way around.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But, try as they might, the philosophers could not get such models to fit what actually happens in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One young man who made dolls for tourists wanted to make indi'gena queen dolls, and he took my picture to use as a model. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he can’t use the Catholic peasants as models, he turns to landscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The central plateau was his roots as an epidemiologist and a clinician, and a model of how a committed staff on a limited budget could raise the standard of health in the third world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When the model was unveiled at last, it was an epic letdown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Others argued back that they’d use for models people at the peak of their health, and that’s why they were likely to be “normal parent” age. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Everything was pretty much saying, Buy a whole new model, ya big dummy! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She wears a model ship inside her nest of hair. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z One employee brought a pressure gauge from the lab into a store to test the suction capabilities of a vacuum cleaner model. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The prison had the reputation of being a model facility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then together we could explain how we had arrived at the proposed model for DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Vintage model car kits or even model cars already put together that he could take apart. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But her father’s model of the same intersection smells only of dried glue and sawdust. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In this period the word ‘model’ is ambiguous: it can carry the modern meaning but more often it refers to a graphic representation, a plan or drawing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Again she thinks of the model upstairs, the stone inside. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Both Francis and I, however, knew that the models in the Cavendish would not be completely satisfactory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z How on earth can you explain what it all looks like without any models? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “COOSA LIQUORS’ entire business model is built around selling cigarettes to minors and alcohol to adults.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A world could be made in five pages, and one that was more pleasing than a model farm. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He’d had no one in his family to talk him into returning to school, no model of what that sort of life looked like. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Yet it was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that Smeaton and Watt both used models to work out how to transform the efficiency of powered machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The room which she found most to her liking had a bunk bed with brown corduroy spreads and models of airplanes hanging on delicate wires from the ceiling. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Some of the houses were decked out in colored lights, and one had a wooden model of a bearded man in a cart pulled by eight antelope. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Yeah, yeah, model man when he lived, model man after he died. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Here she is, our star. One of our most popular models.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Wow, Liv, they look great, even if the model is a little overly enthusiastic.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Before, he’s always been a model of perfect, unnatural calm. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The only stipulation was that he had to describe the two models impartially, without arguing in favour of the Copernican system, and restricting himself to the astronomical and mathematical arguments on both sides. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Suesetta says, “On behalf of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Bethel, we thank you for being a role model to us and a pillar of hope to the nation.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were watching the model and not the beer can. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sorely tempted, too, by the perfect, moving model of the galaxy in a large glass ball, which would have meant he never had to take another Astronomy lesson. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z There was a world of difference between working on models in the classroom at Engels and having to go to work on the real thing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He hardly sounded like the boy who’d flung himself into my chemistry class, pretending to be a nude model. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When Collins gazed across the racial landscape of the town, he saw a place where there were almost no black role models. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He put a hand on my arm and pointed to a model overhead with a silver picture on it of a swirling twister, just about to touch down. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The husband could have been a tennis pro, and the wife looked like a model. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z But he’s found someone he thinks will be a perfect model for him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z One of the few people whose eyes clearly saw the implications of the Copernican model soon after the publication of De Revolutionibus was the English astronomer Thomas Digges. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z How could a seasoned author like John Keegan, a man who shows frequent flashes of writerly flair, serve as a model of incoherent writing, comparing badly with a guy who sells birdseed on Cape Cod? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The next morning, Watson and Crick raced down to the lab and started model building in earnest. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He stares at the brain model, his face bright red. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Now he’s building a palace modeled on the one his friend the Shah has got in Iran. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An older model Civic was parked off the shoulder, somewhat camouflaged by the woods. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Burnham claimed the agreement was a victory for the exposition, but in fact the fair’s concessions were a breakthrough for organized labor, and the resulting contracts became models for other unions to emulate. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These two deprivations, he maintained, along with a third one— that of “a good model of a decision maker to look up to” when they were growing up—were behind most of their criminal careers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You look great,” Nana says when I model for her in our living room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The yacht, a sleek luxury model favored by rappers, movie stars, and moguls, powered toward the small island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They are now given joint credit with Linde for what is called “the new inflationary model,” based on the idea of a slow breaking of symmetry. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Making brand-new models might take all of a week, whereas an answer was possible within a day or so. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Robin told me he made such marvelous glider models, but I had no idea it was only a preliminary. To have such ambition!” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Though this proved more difficult to fit together than the more open B structure, a satisfactory A model awaited me upon my return. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And when night fell and the lights of Chattana blazed across the water, and Somkit chattered on and on about orb motors and the latest speedboat models, Pong stayed silent. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, before he got to the country, Genie had never broken a model or killed a bird before, so maybe North Hill was actually messing his smartness up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z That I want a new look like that model in the magazine, so that maybe people will start to see me differently and treat me differently. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z After a few minutes of experimentation, I discovered that the only computer that would power on was one of the oldest, the IMSAI8080, the same model of computer Matthew Broderick owned in WarGames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The idea of using tinker-toy-like models to solve biological structures was clearly a last resort. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Though I was equally anxious to build the complete model, I thought more about Linus and the possibility that he might stumble upon the base pairs before we told him the answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She wraps her arm around my shoulder and leads me to the next aisle, where they keep the discontinued models. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was very expensive originally, but had been worn by a model in a fashion show, so I got it very cheap, indeed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Genie watched, fascinated—it was kind of like building a model car. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I could tell Marco was a woman-hater, because in spite of all the models and TV starlets in the room that night he paid attention to nobody but me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Of course I want to be a model. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “You want help us fly it?”He held up the model glider. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw bent his head forward, closer to the model, breathing in the thick, acrid fumes of glue and metallic paint quickly, trying to forget. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Thus as soon as I got to the lab I began adding bits of copper wire to some of our carbon-atom models, thereby changing them into the larger-sized phosphorus atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Morgan approached these questions by studying yet another model organism—fruit flies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In honor of the fair Kodak called the folding version of its popular model No. 4 box camera the Columbus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She could just see him seated in his favorite chair, fiddling with a model ship he’d been building for the better part of a year, a pint of lager within arm’s reach, as always. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A number of top fashion models had it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As in those pictures, those museums, those model towns, there are no children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Meanwhile the tireless Rutherford, now back at Cambridge as J. J. Thomson’s successor as head of the Cavendish Laboratory, came up with a model that explained why the nuclei didn’t blow up. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “So I look at your practice rock and model last night,” Guillermo says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Professor McGonagall told me all about the special circumstances, Potter. And what model is it?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Shoto’s vessel was a large interplanetary trawler named the Kurosawa, modeled after a ship called the Bebop in the classic anime series Cowboy Bebop. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If you are doing well you turn yours in on a new model just as you do with an automobile if you can possibly afford to. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not stealing. It’s like the library. You check out a book, look at what’s inside, and take it back. We’ll use this canister as our model. We make our own and return this one.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Rutherford’s discovery revolutionized physicists’ model of the atom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Letting the King’s group have the first go at helical models was the right thing in any circumstance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At eleven at night, he is still there, along with most of the other designers on his team, all rushing to finish drawings and models by the month’s end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z All evening she has been marching her fingers around the model, waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house, who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z An hypothesis was the theoretical model which generated predictions of the future locations of the planets in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chapter Summary: This chapter looks at creative ideas for approaching and planning a successful music lesson, including a guided outline, models of full lessons, and classroom management tips. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Irresistibly, this became known as the “plum pudding” model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They’d lose weight too quickly, and some would get stuck and would keep losing weight until they wound up like this “model.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I saw her in a black gown and widow’s cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He had even constructed a model to show how they might work, and Mrs. Coulter had seen the object before it was exorcised and burned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1949, West Germany became an independent state, ruled by a democratic form of government modeled after those of the United States, Britain, and France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “This model of the bank building came in bandy,” added Miguel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Here on a low table at the foot of the bed sits what he has been searching for, a wooden model of the city, nestled like a gift. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Even in the little adverts for videos or whatever tucked away to the side, I checked each model’s face before moving on. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to model good behavior and keep spirits up. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A simpler model, however, was proposed in 1514 by a Polish priest, Nicholas Copernicus. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mackenzie sat at a table, puffing peacefully on a pipe, and working at the minute, intricate rigging of a model schooner, while his wife read Three Men in a Boat aloud to him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And, on the same model, heresies were named after their originators: Donatism and Arianism, for example. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sure they must all model themselves on you,” Theodora said soberly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Before he pulled the curtains of his four-poster shut, Harry set his tiny model of the Hungarian Horntail on the table next to his bed, where it yawned, curled up, and closed its eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z All of our ideas about the way the Universe works are now accepted as simply models which are put forward to explain observations and the results of experiments as best we can. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He was accompanied by his personal robot, a model Tendai hadn’t seen in years. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Clark, who was a contracting carpenter, was at his drawing table, drafting models of houses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z However, we both knew that we would not be home until a complete model was built in which all the stereochemical contacts were satisfactory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The US followed a similar growth model after independence. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “All he does is work on the model for the new junior high school. He goes over and over it. He moves a pillar here, then another one there. It’s not classical enough,’ he says. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Seconds later, they heard the roar of the crowd, which meant Cedric had entered the enclosure and was now face-to-face with the living counterpart of his model. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z This early model was known as a hydraulis organ because it used a tank of water to pressurise the air for the pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A model plane wasn’t a sister, but JimmyTrotter was the only one speaking to me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In such models one finds that as the universe expands, any matter or radiation in it gets cooler. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in JimmyTrotter’s room, pretending to love his model airplanes since there wasn’t anything new to do or see. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He decided not to tell anyone what he had done, and promised himself that Tres Marias would again become the model farm it had once been. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, several classic studies with animal models. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They retreat into Frederick’s bedroom, which is populated with tin soldiers and model airplanes and wooden crates full of comic books. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The model at the foot of the bed bleeds away and is a long time restoring itself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Today, watching Rose finish up her Lego model of where we lived, I was still wondering what Ali had meant. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The metal purine and pyrimidine models, needed for systematically checking all the conceivable hydrogen-bonding possibilities, had not been finished on time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z After tea I returned to point out that it was lucky I found tennis more pleasing than model building. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Their model of DNA was not just a pretty picture; the structure predicted the most important features of the function. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This made a deep impression on the young man, who immediately saw the power and simplicity of the Sun-centred model of the Universe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “Badly dressed. Skin like poultry. She says she would like to see you about a model house?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A year and a half after the earthquake, Tres Marias was once again the model estate it had been before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann’s models alone, which after all were only approximations to the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she was buying socks with her mother the week after her braces came off and some lady asked if she modeled. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I know, so lame. Want to know how many older model black Civics there are in the tri-state area?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z So far, most of them had been honor student types, athletes, model citizens. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z But what if the structure of DNA was so simple—so elegant—that it could be deduced by “common sense,” by model building? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z 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 Soon they are walking streets, she is sure, that she has never been on, streets beyond the boundaries of her father’s model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So far, to our knowledge, King’s had not built any three-dimensional models of the necessary atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “In fact, I hope so. We’ll be testing our models every clear day.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The astronomical observations were direct evidence for the accuracy of the Copernican model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure goes to the model neighborhood and runs her fingers over the houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Was his interest in these models merely pecuniary? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Yes, the model was beefy and masculine, but she was also a woman. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I am by profession an artist’s model,” Eleanor said quickly, to silence her own thoughts. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Supported by the Church through the Dark Ages, Ptolemy’s model helped prevent the advance of astronomy for a millennium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was getting nasty eyes from many elderly, almost uniformly svelte model types who had gotten lost on their way to the L.L.Bean catalog shoot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z What makes it science is not that it provides an explanation but that it provides reliable predictions in the form of a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was starting on a new model, in the room with the dolls, drawing it out very carefully on graph paper, first, to see whether it could work. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Vincent has friends who send him “a beautiful delivery of flowers every week,” which serve as a model for him to paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The look of women’s magazines today—a sea of voluptuous models and titillating cover lines— is due in no small part to her influence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the first Friedmann model, space is just like this, but with three dimensions instead of two for the earth’s surface. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They later realized, however, that there was a much more general class of Friedmann-like models that did have singularities, and in which the galaxies did not have to be moving any special way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An inflatable solar system hung from the ceiling, with the sun and eight planets scaled to size, along with various starship Enterprise models. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Not to model flashy costumes and eat delicacies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She became a role model, inspiring generations of African American performers who followed her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He would come at it with a bang, deploying his deep understanding of chemistry, mathematics, and crystallography—but more important, his instinctual grasp of model building. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As Franklin picked the model apart, molecule by molecule, it was as if she were extracting bones from their bodies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A model of the bell, as if it were solid, was first made of clay and plaster of Paris. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z He was particularly enthusiastic about a papier-mache model of Big Brother’s head, two meters wide, which was being made for the occasion by his daughter’s troop of Spies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A curtain kept his model hidden until near the end of his lecture, when he proudly unveiled his latest creation. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Like a European model and one of Tolkien's elves all molded together. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Finally over coffee I admitted that my reluctance to place the bases inside partially arose from the suspicion that it would be possible to build an almost infinite number of models of this type. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z With this accomplished, another round of model building could start and, given luck, it might occur by Christmas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The way these non-uniformities depend on direction seems to agree with the predictions of the inflationary model and the no boundary proposal. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of one mound, like a one-eighth scale model of Stonehenge, was a ragged circle of wak’a: sacred stones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Unless you had an older model, the machines destroyed the inside of all your phones.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Again there was not a hint of what the model looked like. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Keller runs his good hand along the seams of my model like he’s checking for gaps. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Marine models were essential in the early days of research on muscle structure and function, and research on muscle has become a major preoccupation at the MBL. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As we passed the shipyard where the loftsmen raised the shape of a hull according to the measurements of a model, he taught me the secret of numerical proportions and scale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But what can you really expect from someone who asks for chemistry kits and brain models for Christmas? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z "Yes, sir? I will be happy to give you information about your Sears product. May I have the name and the model number, please?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A remarkable feature of the first kind of Friedmann model is that in it the universe is not infinite in space, but neither does space have any boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s so naked, way more naked than the girl model was. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He’s not afraid to ask for a discount if there’s a small scratch or if it’s a discontinued model. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The following week, the school board met to decide on the model for the new junior high school—which was probably why Mr. Kowalski had been spending all his time muttering “classical, classical, classical.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When she received pictures of the most recent fashions in the mail, they only proved that she had not been wrong about the models that she designed herself and sewed on Amaranta’s primitive pedal machine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z 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 We called it “synagogue,” and we modeled it on the Jews of the Old Testament. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognize one of the virtual models as a character from the latest Final Fantasy game, a girl with bright blue hair, now greeting me by name and showing off her Louis Vuitton purse. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z An older model white Nissan Maxima slowed and pulled up behind Travis’s pickup. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Finally, she removed a plastic model of an F-8 Crusader, paused to fix a misplaced decal with a small application of spit, then set it down in a window ledge. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The model looks like a latticework corkscrew invented by a madman, or an impossibly fragile spiral staircase that might connect the human past to its future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Ptolemy recognized this flaw, but nevertheless his model was generally, although not universally, accepted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was already at work tightening the model on its support stands so that he could read off the atomic coordinates. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z On the front was a model house with a wide porch, living room, bathroom, kitchen, and two bedrooms. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was good to see the boys had some role models. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The cobwebs still clung to the rigging of the model boats. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z If her father has built this alley into his model, her fingers have not discovered it yet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They couldn’t remember things the way everyone else could, or see the models that were in the air, you know, of chromosomes or stamens. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The awkward truth became apparent that the correct DNA model must contain at least ten times more water than was found in our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It is not simply about how governments, business, and people communicate, not just about how organizations interact, but is about the emergence of completely new social, political, and business models. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In Friedmann’s model, all the galaxies are moving directly away from each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, his dad, Jupiter, wasn’t exactly a model of good behavior. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There are seven trailers in all, different makes and models and years, and they sit in a line with the corn growing up around them. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I went to a lot of trouble to memorize the model number of the blanket—all ten characters—and now I don't even need to use it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Franklin fit neither model: she was neither affable housewife nor cauldron-stirrer in a boiled wool robe, neither Madonna nor witch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “We can use plaster of paris. The model would have to lie still and be totally quiet—but only until it sets. It doesn’t take long. Then we can let them out.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the classical models of latter-day seclusion represented by Cincinnatus and described by Cicero and Virgil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Reaching for the model Big Ben clock that we brought along from London, I set an alarm for ten minutes from now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Who needs school when you could be a model?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z This property is now the biggest and richest in the whole area—an example, the envy of everyone around, a model hacienda. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ptolemy’s model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It w as a magazine, a women’s magazine it looked like from the picture, a model on glossy paper, hair blown, neck scarfed, mouth lipsticked; the fall fashions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can there be any danger in that so-called model?” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Usually, Quendy is just like a kind of broken, little economy model of Calista, and she knows that, and feels real bad about it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z All the pictures are of a certain type of model. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There was an architect’s drafting table with a bunch of rulers and protractors, and some 3-D models of buildings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I had the model all picked out and everything. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Could the model maid be an actual maid and the model home someone’s actual dwelling? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Step with your right foot. Then step with your left foot. Now, pivot around and tuck your foot back to the model’s T. Don’t forget to inhale!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When she smiled, she looked like a model. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They were all beautiful, like models, and they were barely dressed. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z After all, what universally accepted black role models did these kids really have besides the Three J’s—Michael Jordan and Bo Jackson and Magic Johnson? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those places was a room where model rovers were displayed. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The method which he and his associates evolved is today a shining model but one too little emulated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “It varies depending on a homeowner’s needs, but the base price for this model is about sixty-five thousand dollars.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He despairs of us, all of us, including the model, whose surreptitious gum chewing maddens him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z All of this can be explained very well in the atomic model of the world, but only with much greater difficulty using Cartesian vortices. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Once Torricelli’s experiment had been accepted as a basic model, it was possible to devise all sorts of variations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He sits in the darkened drafting room, surrounded by the desks of his coworkers, some piled with drawings and models, others as neat as a pin. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad bought me a model airplane from the gift shop, a real A-10 Thunderbolt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a new model, with a powerful V-6 engine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the cornflakes packet there was a plastic model of a submarine. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It’s not easy trying to behave like a model child with people you can’t stand, especially when you don’t mean a word of it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If so, he had again Linus Pauling with his atomic models. accomplished a feat of extraordinary significance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I could almost see the photo shoot and the actress or model going to eat a “light lunch” with her boyfriend afterward. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The model aircraft sped down the street for one last run. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I took the big stick out of my backpack—a bedpost I’d broken off Crusty’s Safari Deluxe floor model. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Tony was the closest thing Wes had to a role model. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Here was one of those old images brought to life, or maybe a creature descended in true line through endless years from the models used by the forgotten craftsmen long ago. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Upon pressing Maurice, I learned that the jigs for the molecular models had not been touched after arriving at his lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z That’s because the Internet has shattered traditional business models and fractured the attention of the audience. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thirteen students in my class made fallout- shelter models for their science project, which shows it was not just me worried about it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next Tally was a much more standard morphological model, with almond-shaped brown eyes, straight black hair with long bangs, the dark lips set to maximum fullness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, we've sold quite a few. Some of our newer models have wait lists.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We now know that Aristarchus’s sun-centered cosmos, with the stars set at a practically infinite distance from the observer, was absolutely correct, yet we have little evidence that anyone else thought his model worth proving. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Rusty red thing, one of those old American Flyer models. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 “We’ll worry about the written part if you make a model of the ship. Or a painting even!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It looked almost too quaint from here, like a model in a black-and-white Hollywood film. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The next morning, however, as I took apart a particularly repulsive backbone-centered molecule, I decided that no harm could come from spending a few days building backbone-out models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The search for the Northwest Passage, or the attempt to explain planetary motion on the model of magnetism, were mistaken but useful. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because they are my mother’s age, it embarrasses me to be in the same room with them and the naked model both together. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds—scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In previous years Pepettes had made scrapbooks for their players, including one with the cover made of lacquered wood and modeled on Disney’s Jungle Book. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Carmen and I were pushed to the side as the crowd moved in closer to the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Engineers gave direction to the craftsmen who made the wind tunnel models and to the technicians and mechanics who manipulated the models. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When her name is announced and she stands up to accept the certificate, Mr. Doyle runs up ahead of her, snapping pictures as though she is a runway model. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Shoes at the foot of the bed, beneath the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Above the fireplace on a wooden shelf was a beautiful, dusty model ship, its sails billowing in an imaginary wind. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The Indian campaign became a model for the type of protest that we in the Youth League were calling for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilkins found the model “disappointing”—but held his tongue. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With clothes so dated, these three New York teenagers would probably have a poster of me on their apartment walls, as a model of what not to wear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Whenever I make a new model I make a clay astronaut figure and hide him in it. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Most likely we had to know the correct DNA structure before the right models could be made. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z More than forty years later, civil rights advocacy is stuck in a model of advocacy King was determined to leave behind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z An arrow zipped past it, missing completely, and I dropped from the spaceship onto the top of a floor exhibit, a huge model of the earth. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The radio controls of more modern models had not been heard of ten years earlier. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “It’s the latest model. No scratches anywhere. I took good care of it.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was a used model that managed to look imposing even when positioned on a linoleum-tiled floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I did not disturb him and rarely talked to him, but as an example of a man unselfishly devoted to a good cause, Reverend Harris was an important model for me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This caused Rachel to quiver with pride and stroll about the house preceded by her pelvis in the manner of a high-fashion model. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1923, the tenth anniversary of Bohr’s atomic model, physicists were questioning its general applicability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Again he emphasized that he wanted to put off more model building until Rosy was gone, six weeks from then. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The model of an officer in total control was a lie, Smith said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s easier on the model than posing for a painting, holding the same position for hours at a time. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then he drives Jutta and Max to the station in the Prinz 4 and kisses her on the lips, and she boards the train with Werner’s notebook and the model house in her purse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a new model airplane, I knew right away. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Professor Z. K. Matthews was the very model of the African intellectual. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m finally putting the finishing touches on my model for architecture class. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The first model airplane I ever made was of a famous racing plane called the Gee Bee. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell him he has to stop using Catholic peasants and workers as models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The tradition in academic training has been, since the late seventeenth century, to draw first from plaster casts and then turn to models. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Our first minutes with the models, though, were not joyous. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z For knowledge of substance Newton substituted conceptual models that worked reliably and accurately. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I took a closer look but was distracted by the sound of clinking glass as people gathered around the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Uncle pointed up at the large, dark shapes of the glider models, turning on their strings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z San Bernardino in 1948 supplied the nation with a new yin and yang, new models of conformity and rebellion. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Part of his purpose was to prove that the Ptolemaic system was an accurate representation of how the heavens really work and not just a mathematical model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There ought to be some principle that picks out one initial state, and hence one model, to represent our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will find it in a display case next to the original Winkle and Grimble scale model. Let me give you that location.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The use of videotape in conjunction with systematic observation of children’s overt, physical responses to music: A research model for early childhood music education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders loved my name for our mission model. I told them it was our destiny to win the competition, and that this was our child. They thought it was brilliant.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z This whole week, people have been looking at us as model teenagers who have changed their lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Now our immediate hope was that his chemical colleagues would be more than ever awed by his intellect and not probe the details of his model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Your father has many good qualities,” she said to me, “but he’s not the most stable role model for a young man like yourself. He’d be the first to admit it, Noah.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Not like a model beautiful, but her hair is shiny, her skin is bright, and from inside her you can feel she wants to help. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The military provided the model for the chain of command; enlisted men and women were marshaled daily by their superior officers into a battle of wills with the mass of angry and resentful prisoners. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the same token, the modern Korean language may be a poor model for the ancient Yayoi language of Korean immigrants in 400 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As a young man Norwood had traveled to Bermuda with a diving bell modeled on Halley’s device, intending to make a fortune scooping pearls from the seabed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Space researchers use the Atacama as a model for the sands of Mars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the last was out, the resemblance to the cutaway model they used in anatomy classes was only faint. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Contemporary Ethiopia was not a model when it came to democracy, either. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Psychiatrists talk about criminals as people with stunted psychological development, people who have had pathological relationships with their parents, who lack adequate role models. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the picture, Shanna modeled it in a bridal store filled with other white gowns. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I learned about the Red Cross visit to the “model” Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt when I visited the Holocaust museum in DC on a trip with my parents. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Had she been born five hundred years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The street is almost like a museum, or a street in a model town constructed to show the way people used to live. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The request was from Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican with striking green eyes who could have been a fashion model if he hadn’t gone into robbery and murder. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t mean to build a real model A-10 Thunderbolt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z When I was small I played with toys, made models. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z “So, what do you think of this model?” she asks. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Later, after sunset, he could get on with the model, even if he had to work by lamplight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember our apartment, Papa? With my books and our model and all those pinecones on the windowsill?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For the epilogue, he writes a poem, modeled after one of Okeoma’s poems. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Haskell ran the Dregs, but these days, he preferred to sit in the warmth of his room, drinking lukewarm lager, building model ships, and telling long stories of his exploits to anyone who would listen. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps, of all the models that were roughly like the real universe, only Friedmann’s would contain a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Also there were full-page pictures of new models, each one grander and more shiny than the next. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat on her bunk, using one of Daedalus’s 3-D-rendering programs to study a model of the Parthenon in Athens. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t just in his willingness to accept the Copernican model that Kepler deviated from the strict Lutheran teaching of his time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But what surrounds the model is not something her father conveyed to her; what’s beyond the model is the most compelling thing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Second, any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That Babylonian astronomy was not the only eastern influence on Anaximander is suggested by correspondences between his model and certain elements of native Persian religion, such as those preserved in Zoroastrianism. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z When she unwraps the newspaper, she finds a model house, tall and narrow, no bigger than her fist. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z What a man he was, granite as any quarried about Portland, a perfect model for some future equestrian statue. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a terrible role model for Muslim girls everywhere!” she said. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She immediately jumps forward, places one hand on her hip in the manner of a fashion model, juts out her chest, and flashes me a toothy smile. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A senior faculty member expressed his confidence that, though I was unrepresentative of lower-class Hispanics, I would serve as a role model for others of my race. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not an apple or a fire extinguisher, and definitely not the model fire engine that my sweet son made! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Start there, and move forward. I sort of modeled these sketches after a creative exercise comic artists like to do. It’s called ‘twenty-five expressions.’ When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Instead she returns to the table at the foot of the bed and kneels beside the model of the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And who are these people whose idea of decorating is matched pictures of mallard ducks in flight and whose house is perfectly characterless and pristine even before the model maid sets to work? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Holding Cholly as a model of sin and failure, she bore him like a crown of thorns, and her children like a cross. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Kepler’s model was simpler than Ptolemy’s, and it was more accurate. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From the historian's point of view, the difference between the two models is unimportant. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 A few seconds later a 3-D model of the Chinese handcuffs appeared on the screen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When we finally start the gig, she ends up giving a kind of multimedia show for them, three active hours of video and mouth models and recorded sounds. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Father would set the problem of ratios to me, in which I would have to convert the figures for a full- length original to a scaled-down model. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Patrice is model beautiful and always wears her thick black hair slicked back and pulled tight into a low ponytail. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Fifty miles away, at King’s College in London, Franklin had little interest in building models with toys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I noticed that he drove several different cars as well, and then only American models; a politician, especially an Asian-American one, doesn’t have a choice in the matter. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Around it sprang up large, sloppy statues, easily modeled because of the snow’s dampness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His model was England, with its national bank, regulated commerce, and powerful finance ministers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He looked down at the model, who was right-side-up to him; he was still smiling, that wistful smile of his. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z An intense raking light from an unseen source at the left is used to model forms and create textures. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mott encouraged Stanton to trust her opinions and speak her mind, and Stanton found a role model in the uncompromising middle-aged activist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Free-standing sculpture—that is, sculpture that is carved or modeled fully in the round—is made by either of two methods. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I pace around the show, up and down the former aisles, around the checkout counters where Jody’s sculptures pose like models on a runway, past the wall where Carolyn’s quilts yell defiance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The system of communications used in science should provide a neat, workable model for studying mechanisms of information-building in human society. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even his favorite model cars, lined up on the shelves in the corner, bothered him today. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z But he was Silas, and Bod was happy to see him, and even happier when Silas gave him a present, a little model of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I don’t know the best way to make a model volcano, or what it feels like to get your Science Fair project picked to go to the gym for Parents’ Night. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Before an audience of intellectuals, Swammerdam cut away the skin of the silkworm to reveal what appeared to be a tiny model of the future moth inside, from proboscis to antennae to folded wings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The knife scar on his cheek was a pretty strong clue that the men my grandfather was chasing were not model citizens. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You are going to have advantages—and education. You’ll be around better role models. Mrs. Moss had several violent, failed marriages.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is seldom, indeed, an English face comes so near the antique models as did his. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We saw representative assemblies modeled, to a greater or lesser extent, on those of the ancient world. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z At the meeting itself, her practices were praised as a model for others to follow. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In their eyes, the Soviet Union seemed to be a new, more equitable model, a beacon for a more hopeful future. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Moira said later that it wasn’t real, it was done with models; but it was hard to tell. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They do not buy for the generations, but only until a new model they can afford comes out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, Dr. Zinchenko—all decked out in a sparkly red minidress—looked like the models that point at prizes on TV. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “In part because of the empty-Amazon model,” Hecht told me, these were “seen as anomalous and insignificant.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Until the metal bases were on hand, any model building would be too sloppy to be convincing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He uses his fingers to make himself work like the model, and he tries so hard a slick of drool icicles from his mouth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As Howard Hiatt had done, Sachs began talking to influential individuals and institutions about using Farmer’s clinic as a world model. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Q. Who are your style icons/role models? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And yet, that lifetime was a kind of scale model for what followed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “This baby’s been in service for fifty years. Oldest model still in the chutes.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z By now Father had hung huge models of the flying machines—some up to six feet in wingspan—from the rafters, and these would twist and turn as if they were giant captive moths. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She lit candles beside Our Lady of the Fighter Pilot and she dusted off the model of the F-8 that Matthew had constructed for his father one Christmas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin and his mother lived in the best prisoner quarters Camp 14 had to offer: a “model village” next to an orchard and just across from the field where his mother was later hanged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "I wouldn't mind trading old Percy in for a new model." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z What about an approach, an assumption, a concept, a condition, a context, a framework, an issue, a model, a process, a range, a role, a strategy, a tendency, or a variable? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Finally there was a Swiss Army knife and a key ring with a model of the Eiffel Tower on it, but no keys. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Many historians also credit him with at least one noteworthy contribution to astronomy—namely a universal model that put the planets in orbit around the sun, which in turn revolved around the earth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z All I need is the model number and the manufacturer. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They play-fought over who got to model the coat next, neither of them realizing the gray-and-white fur belonged to a real rabbit. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A croquis is made quickly, the artist drawing for just a few minutes, while the model holds one pose. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I stretch out the hump on the bridge of her nose like it's a clay model. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Melba Valle lived above us and was a part-time model and dancer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Very latest model. Only came out last month,” said Flint carelessly, flicking a speck of dust from the end of his own. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The model will be on its bench in the corner, and the sugar bowl will be in the center of the kitchen table, its little spoon resting on the rim. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The model would certainly fit with the general locations of the X-ray reflections, for its essential helical parameters had been chosen to fit the seminar facts I had conveyed to Francis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Jule was looking at the wax model of Charles Dickens, who sat morosely in a hard wooden chair, when someone spoke to her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But one of the most important lessons learned in the centuries since Copernicus is that a scientific model doesn’t have to explain everything to be a good model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The model—it will be inside the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any role models to look up to who looked like me in fencing, and there weren’t any other Muslim women wearing hijab at the elite levels of sport to inspire my quest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Thus, European potters had to reinvent Chinese manufacturing methods for themselves, but they were stimulated to do so by having models of the desired product before them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He wanted a model in which everything moved around a single centre at an unvarying rate, and he wanted this for aesthetic reasons as much as anything else. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Trying to be subtle, I manage a few questions about Oscar in between others on chisel position and model building. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z All around, on haphazardly aligned shelves the boys had fastened to the walls themselves, amidst the model cars and their made-up superhero drawings, were souvenirs from all the adventures they’d experienced throughout the season. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then he saw cell phones, most of them pretty old models, unlike his. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Virtual models stand outside clothing shops, each twirling to show off a variety of outfits. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After saying that I was going to ask a Cavendish machinist to make models of the purines and pyrimidines, I remained silent, waiting for Bragg’s thoughts to congeal. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Melissa didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as she modeled the girls’ clothing, with Kelly oohing and aahing all the way. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Soon, when several atoms had been pushed in or out, the three-chain model began to look quite reasonable. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The girls disappeared behind the curtain and Adina called them one by one to answer questions about world peace and being role models. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This model permitted reasonably accurate predictions of planetary motion, certainly good enough for the precision of measurement available in Ptolemy’s day, and even many centuries later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before my first life-drawing class, I lay awake worrying that I might get physically excited by the nude models. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z One look at the model was enough to convince her that it was nonsense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You’re lucky Dr. Cullen was there. He’s such a nice man . . . very young, though. And he looks more like a model than a doctor. ...” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The woman says, “I brought something—” Even through its newspaper wrapping, Marie-Laure knows it is the model house; it feels as if this woman has dropped a molten kernel of memory into her hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Only one person can easily play with a model, and so Francis did not try to check my work until I backed away and said that I thought everything fitted. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His excitement was plain on his face as he held up the balsa-wood airplane model kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Although the Earl of Cork was almost a model landlord, most of his English counterparts treated the Irish so harshly that some sort of rebellion was inevitable, and it happened to break out in 1641. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Ptolemy’s model of planetary motion can be represented by a little machine, like those that, serving a similar purpose, existed in Ptolemy’s time.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a week of solid fiddling with the molecular models would be necessary to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z No one else brought up the desirability of using molecular models to help solve the structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The games of the masters that he discovered in Shakhmatny became his models; later, some of these masters would emerge as his competitors. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus knew that his model of the Universe raised new questions, even if it did answer old puzzles—and he knew that it didn’t answer all of the old puzzles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Virchow was the perfect role model for anyone who wanted to change the world, or at least lessen the inequality between the rich and poor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The situation in Algeria was the closest model to our own in that the rebels faced a large white settler community that ruled the indigenous majority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, to me, my father was the model of discipline and courage. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I like cheeseburgers too much to be a model. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing! Just a dumb model of this town and a broken promise. Just Madame, who is dead. Just my great-uncle, who is frightened of an ant.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If one’s model or one’s data are no good, the conclusions that follow won’t be either. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college- age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was never said, but the model behind this process was military. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He holds the model under the lamp and turns it so that its recessed front door faces him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I then dashed down the stairs to the machine shop to warn them that I was about to draw up plans for models wanted within a week. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Wilkins, Franklin, and her student, Ray Gosling, took the train down from King’s the next morning to inspect the Watson and Crick model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The crack of wood breaking startled me, but I let out a breath of relief when I saw it was only Jay punching out the pieces of his model airplane kit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But I don’t see any backup coming from my fellow servers, each of whom has slipped into her own personal funk; Gail, my role model, stares sorrowfully at a point six inches from her nose. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So these new Rose buildings are models of all them buildings you two saw downtown?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I glanced over at Rose, who was bent over a model, building a girder. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z As soon as the possibility arose that much more water was involved, the number of potential DNA models alarmingly increased. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Edward stood in the halo of the porch light, looking like a male model in an advertisement for raincoats. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Of course, it’s not like the old days. When the Colosseum was first built, you know, they could flood the whole arena. They had sea battles with ships modeled on real ones.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Then he drops a bag of earthenware clay on my table and commands me to make the model, first thing, now that I know what hides inside the practice rock. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There were Muslim men who modeled their lives on the life of the Prophet, and those who strayed and fell short. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The truth is that he really was a heretic and was burned for his religious beliefs; it was just unfortunate that the Copernican model got tangled up in the whole business. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Anyone who saw Tres Marias in decline and who could see it now, when it’s a model estate, would have to agree with me. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My seventh-grade language arts teacher, Ms. Patterson, and the school librarian, Ms. Minerva, chatted excitedly by the model of the town. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They have smooth brown faces that look unreal—the forehead, eyebrows, and cheekbones of models. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The row of lightning rods in the red sky looked like some weird science experiment, like NASA’s model home on Mars. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her life, however, was a model of America’s great love affair with mobility, in every sense. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s daft to assume you’ll have the same sort of life as your model. I agree with Tommy. It’s just a bit of fun. We shouldn’t get so serious about it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All of this defied Durham’s reputation as a model for the New South, a public relations line Fuller heard often when he first arrived. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The people shopping, the people working behind the counter, the models in the advertisements—all white. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He hired the model right on the spot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For even if the answer had been yes, our model building would have gone ahead. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He circles the model sometimes beaming, sometimes frowning, all the while making weird clucking sounds. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The motor scooter was an old-fashioned model: big and baby blue. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Such a model of the universe would not correspond to what we see. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of them was a long table with the two models for the new junior high school, each one covered with a white sheet, like they were some sort of national secret. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The agreement was so good that both Linus’ model and their theory had to be correct. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “We’re going to dress up as girls and model,” he said, pointing behind him to a large group of guys who wore football jerseys. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z An engineer named Richard Whitcomb noticed that in the transonic speed range, the greatest turbulence occurred at the point where the wings of a model plane connected to its fuselage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then I realized that the phosphate groups in Linus’ model were not ionized, but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They had left him alone most of the week It had rained, and he had made a model of a helter-skelter, out of cardboard painted silver. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There was no reason to believe that he gave it one hundredth the importance of the structure of metals, for which he took great delight in making soap-bubble models. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We were going to build a scale model of the moped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He buys a mirror, one good enough to use for self-portraits, because models are hard to hire, even in Arles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She pointed at the metallic paintwork, admiring the biggest, fastest models. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire place was filled with model planes. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z To determine those differences, the Times relied on a computer model based on the Treasury’s. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z At the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, Thomas Byrdsong got a head start on the long road to the Moon by testing a model of the Saturn rocket, a launch vehicle the size of a redwood tree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hooper was playing with the silver cardboard model of the fort, rolling the marble down and letting it drop through the chute, over and over again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The Chevy they drove was nothing fancy, a standard model. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mr. Kowalski pulled off the sheet from his model of the new junior high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a flash of inspiration, Stanton suggested using the Declaration of Independence as a model for their Declaration of Sentiments. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In the district of Sydenham in south London, at a place called Crystal Palace Park, there stands a strange and forgotten sight: the world’s first life-sized models of dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Then the model changes position, and the artist draws again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Now she was called a black model, and because her father was a capitalist and her mother had committed suicide, she was criticized all the more. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Variants of the model exist with more romantically plausible constraints. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Abuela looks on, arms crossed, as the twins model their getup. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If true, then before serious model building began, a decision would have to be made whether the chains would be held together by hydrogen bonds or by salt linkages involving the negatively charged phosphate groups. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At the next-heaviest atom, helium, the model began to break down, creating the anomalies that drew from Max Born his expression of despair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If we can model its processes, it is because we have developed our own capacities for making nature-like artefacts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Members of the Brain Busters Club convened after work and on weekends to build elaborate model airplanes by hand. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Both the melodic image and its model pursue him incessantly like a double idee fixe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I was happy to be a source of inspiration to young Muslim girls in France, or anywhere else, but I hadn’t really thought of myself as a role model for kids except as a fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z By all accounts, Andre was a model British officer with impeccable manners, who had the misfortune to be caught doing his duty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was a big, 3-D model of the mountain that you could walk all the way around, and exhibits about the plants and animals that lived there, and information about history and climbing routes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the shiny metallic parts in hand, they began to build the model, adding part to part, as if building a house of cards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Maurice Wilkins came to take a look at the model the next morning. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then for a day and a half I tried to find a suitable two-chain model with the backbone in the center. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In place of pencil and paper, the main working tools were a set of molecular models superficially resembling the toys of preschool children. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The boutique clothing stores, several neighborhood art galleries, and other local restaurants and cafés were all part of the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Again Marie-Laure feels for the model house in the pocket of her dress. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They had all shared the assumption that such models must involve various combinations of circular movement, because the philosophers had instructed them that all movements in the heavens was required to be circular. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had a ton of role models, and after I walked on Mars or discovered Planet Nine, then I would be someone’s hero too. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He dated models and actresses and romanced his stunning American wife after standing behind her in line to use the phone at Heathrow Airport. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Quite a lot about the models is not strictly correct. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He is not to be dazzled with trimming or fins or doodads and he is not required by his status to buy a new model every year or so to maintain social face. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen anything like the way his hand races back and forth across the pad, the way his eyes seem to suck in every morsel of the models posing before him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was so interesting to see how we had a girl our own age that is such a role model to us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It's easy for me to move in it; I’ve watched Ma model saris gracefully for years. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I scanned the room for the model of the town, but it was replaced with a Photoshopped image on the wall of Pipo Place. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He set his two wax models in wet sand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes flash from the model to the flames across the hall to Volkheimer’s rifle leaning against the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t see how it matters. Even if you found your possible, the actual model they got you from. Even then, I don’t see what difference it makes to anything.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He had before him a relief model of the island made out of three square sections of rubber and with a pointer began to point out its topographical features, doing so with no flourishes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Why don’t we make a model with a doll or something?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z You are the model by which they will work and live. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was natural therefore to claim that, since a clock models the heavens, the heavens are like a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But there was such a lot of time, here, and when the model was finished, he must think again of something to do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The designs for Orion, Daedalus and the Bussard Ramjet are probably farther from the actual interstellar spacecraft we will one day build than Leonardo’s models are from today’s supersonic transports. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, they do so purely for their own instruction, transcribing their models accurately yet with their own inimitable rhythm. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To Copernicus, his model was better than that of Ptolemy because it was, in modern parlance, more elegant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z With a few hours’ more work, a presentable model should be on display. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “The model of the town isn’t here anymore,” I said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z ‘You mean like this?’ he asked me, and worked the models for himself awhile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It is all, as you can see, just a little unwieldy, but it is the simplest model that can explain all that happens in the world of particles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Clearly that boy doesn’t have any positive male role models in his life. Just look at my son! Just look at him!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge considers them uncorrupted model citizens for their new society. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The same evolutionary forces prevailed to replicate a particular model’s positive traits and breed out excess drag and instability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A new future stretched out before them, but Dorothy Vaughan and the others found themselves at the beginning of a career, with few role models to follow to its end. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “All the models do. On television. Look—it’s easy.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hoped the project would be a model for similar projects in Haiti’s eight other departments and in other chronically poor countries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He pushed back his chair, walked over to the model, and took off its top half. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The MC model was gone and the two Earthmen were alone with the still unmoving Cutie. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I’d really thought that my model of a black hole to help visualize how it could “bend” space-time would win first place. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The Liberator was one of the heaviest planes in the world; the D model then in production weighed 71,200 pounds loaded. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Think of soccer balls, science kits, chemistry sets, racetracks, and model trains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She may as well have kicked the model with her feet. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “It’s a model for the house I’m going to build.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The lifeless places look fake from an aerial view, like a miniature with plastic trees or a felted architectural model. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She felt so defeated that she left the garage without seeing the new models and she spent the night turning over in bed and weeping with indignation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Mom goes to rehab and you decide to swap her out for a new model? Is that what you’re doing with Grace, too? We’re too much trouble, so you decide to find something better?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Some Sundays, though, they would come to visit us and help fly Father’s huge model gliders. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, the mechanisms used for overkill are immunologic, but often, as in the limulus model, they are more primitive kinds of memory. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know. You can invite her to Midsummer Night. You said she’s a catalog model. Tell her there’ll be media people here to make it interesting for her. She can’t turn something like that down.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I tried that morning to model confidence, smiling and joking with the kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z For a long time, though, unlike his puzzle boxes, his model of their neighborhood makes little sense to her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Hoover adopted a similar model, with its classifications and numbered subdivisions, to organize the bureau’s Central Files and General Indices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mr. McDuff, the mine carpenter, built me a desk and some bookshelves for my new room, and I stocked them with science-fiction books and model airplanes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Samuel sent his models to a manufacturer, who promptly rejected the plans and used the method. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth said, “But what—” He patted her reassuringly on the shoulder and led her over to the Safari Deluxe model with teakwood lions carved into the frame and a leopard-patterned comforter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He held in one arm a stuffed Adidas duffel bag; in the other, three Head tennis rackets, the Arthur Ashe Competition model. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The young Cicero overcame some of that shyness by taking lessons from the theater, going on to model his style on Clodius Aesopus. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Acre wasn’t part of the tour for foreign dignitaries who came to view the splendor of Lowell—the model factory city of the New World. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z That little girl from the department store deserved a role model. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Although Harry much preferred this new laughing, joking Ron to the moody, aggressive model he had been enduring for the last few weeks, the improved Ron came at a heavy price. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z After struggling for years, he became a model prisoner and trustee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There’s a glass counter at the side with lots of different piercings for sale, and some rubber models of blank mannequin faces with silver studs in the ears, nostrils, eyebrows, and lips. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As with Pythagoras, in Darwin’s model, every organism carried information to build organs and structures in miniaturized form—except in Darwin’s case, the information was decentralized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Watson tried to massage the model into shape, but it wouldn’t fit. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The snow looked strange in the moonlight, like icing sugar on a model city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Still, I’m skinny and it’s not a pretty kind of skinny like fashion models. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “That,” he said, “is our most important invention, the key to the whole Plan. We made a pilot model last fall. We tried it out, and it worked. So now we’re making three more.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He had a passion for trains—his office was littered with books about the history of railroads, model locomotives, paintings of trains trundling on tracks through green hills and over bridges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z How glorious it was, to be so wanted, and by this man with the rakish metal band around his wrist and the cleft-chinned handsomeness of models in department store catalogues. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He wasn’t a handsome model type, but he was really cute, with a smile that made him more attractive than any movie star. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The actual model building would start right after lunch, and more concrete plans must be formulated to make the process efficient. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z As they expanded, the energy of the field in them would slowly decrease until the inflationary expansion changed to an expansion like that in the hot big bang model. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Another reader offered more money for a blinking graphic that showed, first, a long-necked model in a tight dress, then the same model in a floppy hat. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But Jon turns me into a model of tidiness and efficiency. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The head lifted, elbows propped it up, and the MC model swung clumsily off the table. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The teacher told me that she had heard me speak and wanted me to be a role model for the students and inspire them to do great things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We couldn’t have asked for a better model. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She became positively aggressive when we got on the topic of Mg++ ions that held together the phosphate groups of our three-chain model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann’s models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Most afternoons, after making the morning rounds with Madame, Marie-Laure sits on her bed with the window open and travels her hands over her father’s model of the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The red truck, he realized, was a model, and the details, the ladder, the side mirrors...perfect. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Yet there was still lacking a general theory to test new models as well as to confirm the finer details of the a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It came with a slightly better job and better housing—in the model village, where there was a school and health clinic. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I told him I was sorry about his model planes when I wasn’t. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z There were two specific triggers that encouraged Copernicus to come up with something better than the Ptolemaic model. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Still, Crick got enough of a sense of Franklin’s preliminary thoughts to hurry back to Cambridge and begin building a model. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The room is lit by a pair of green-shaded banker’s lamps, and in the shadows Werner can see shelves crowded with encyclopedias, models of windmills, miniature telescopes, prisms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 The top of the model was broken, the cardboard had buckled and the drawbridge was tilting sideways. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z There may be a large number of models of the universe with different initial conditions that all obey the laws. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The model was on display in his window. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z On every surface, tables and desks and armchairs, there are meticulously constructed models of tents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Cicero was a model of the practical rhetorician. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It’s full of bears and model boats, plus Gat-like piles of books, empty bags of potato chips, cashews crushed underfoot. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, our offer to speed that task by giving them the Cambridge molds for making the models was only halfheartedly received. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z 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 She puts the stone in her pocket and picks up the model house and crosses the hall. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He started giggling and almost dropped my Lego model. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Wallace’s discovery initially seemed to confirm the three-migrations model: the haplogroups were seen as the legacy of separate waves of migration, with the most common haplogroup corresponding to the Clovis culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The motel he settled on was a Howard Johnson Express, one with a quarter of its parking lot filled with different makes and models of cars and the blue vacancy sign on. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The girls and their mother made regular appearances in the social column of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the model of an upwardly mobile and professional black family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He pushes his glasses up and stares into the model of a teeny-tiny house. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Indians as poster children for eco-catastrophe, Indians as green role models: the two images contradict each other less than they seem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Carriages came in a wide variety of models, styles, and price ranges for commercial and private use. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He said model boats were his hobby and that he would be delighted to have Stuart take command of his vessel at any time. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Something new in the history of the world, without models for what we will become. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If my father was sounding more arrogant than usual, it’s because he had brought home a scale model of his design for the new junior high school, and he figured it was a winner. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “All models, they are the exhibitionists,” he says lightly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There are other models to explain Cygnus X-l that do not include a black hole, but they are all rather far-fetched. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Those principles of crop development by artificial selection still serve as our most understandable model of the origin of species by natural selection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So when Savery built a model he would have been misled into thinking he had made a breakthrough. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Attitude, girl,” she says, switching her butt around, dipping and turning like a fashion model. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z |
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