In some cases, however, they were punched by a machine from the fillet to a fixed diameter, so that the thickness was critical for controlling weight.
These days, when mass mailings often carry a presidential scrawl fashioned by a machine from a template of the original, the notion of a bond between a person and his signed name, as between a person and his word, is becoming as quaint as the tale of George Washington and the cherry tree.
Dentists can choose veneers milled by a machine from a block of engineered solid glass Lucite.
Governor Joe Manchin's office got a nice four-pack of Compaq laptops earlier this month, followed a week later by a fifth machine from HP.
Phillip Taylor, a freshman, whose dark suit, black curly hair and wayfarer glasses might make you think he was plucked by a time machine from jazz's Golden Age, took Davis' bench at the piano and played "Some Day My Prince Will Come" with an ease and improvisational virtuosity that turned heads.
As B Company moved forward, their left flank was engaged by a machine-gun from a small party of Viet Cong to their front, while sniper fire intensified.
The government argued that, since the "inspection" of the data was to be carried out by a machine, they were exempt from the normal search-and-seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment.
For a crystal-clear objet, start with a clear block made by a machine that freezes water from the bottom up, forcing bubbles and impurities to the surface, where they're siphoned off.
Message, email or speak a request and a real person will snap into action, augmented by a machine intelligence toolkit built from all the tasks Fin's tackled to date.
As a chief aviation ordnanceman stationed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, he earned the medal by manning a machine gun from an exposed position throughout the attack, despite being repeatedly wounded.
Nor is he created by God or copied from Davidson by a machine.
