It can reach 6 feet high, is yellowish and is as stiff as a pencil.
It's created when growth rings are distorted as if they'd been poked by a dull pencil.
As Leonard Read poignantly portrayed, no one could single-handedly furnish even a simple pencil.
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Each day he dotted the virtues he failed to fulfill with a black lead pencil.
Over the weekend he built a jig that cut the posts as easily as sharpening a pencil.
This updated version of Samsung's original S Pen truly mimics the feel of a pen or pencil.
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So, step away from the Big Data hype for a moment and grab yourself a trusty pencil.
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The rain has started and the sky is turning the color of the lead in a number 2 pencil.
"It is better not to know, " Golz stroked his forehead with the pencil.
If that's Mr. Norris's idea of satire, he needs to sharpen his pencil.
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Instead, by 2002, counties must have in place optical scanners, which require voters fill in bubbles with a pencil.
But in St Albans, Hertfordshire, the Tories lost a seat to the Liberal Democrats on the length of a pencil.
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Zikmu Solo takes up the unique, sober and elegant drawing of the Zikmu speakers, which were born from Philippe Starck's pencil.
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Additionally, you can flip the pen over and use it as an eraser, the way you would with a number 2 pencil.
Too often, the reader is tempted to reach for the red pencil.
After three recounts in Wheathampstead ward each had 1, 132 votes, and the seat was won by the party that picked the longest pencil.
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Prosecutors noted that the boy had a history of violence dating back to nursery school, when he stabbed a teacher with a pencil.
Bob Feit was a professional, down to his No. 2 pencil.
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There were schedules, sure, but they were written in pencil.
This technology, which Dow AgroSciences is moving toward the market, is called a zinc finger, a naturally occurring protein that can be used in a cell nucleus like an editor's red pencil.
Eleven years ago Ronald Stevens, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine, got fed up trying to test his medical students' diagnostic skills with paper and pencil.
His job at Intel takes him to festivals and events such as the Bay Area Maker Faire, where he leads creative workshops on such activities as making digital circuits by drawing with a pencil.
The writings were on a yellow legal pad found underneath Keyes, who slit his wrist Dec. 2 in his Anchorage jail cell using the blade of a disposable razor that he had embedded in a pencil.
In one of such sessions, together with his doctoral student Konstantin Novoselov, he used a piece of ordinary sticky tape (which allegedly they found in a bin) to peel off a very thin layer of graphite, taken from a pencil.
Different from Wacom's capacitive Bamboo Styluses available for iPad, iPhone and other touchscreens, the Bamboo Stylus feel delivers a powerful combination of "active" pen and sensor technology for a digital pen experience that emulates the feel of a traditional ball-point pen or pencil.
From 1977 he appeared with animated clay character Morph, who lived in a pencil box.
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