A sense of history turning on the fulcrum of a single man's actions is a theme within them.
Smith's design was later improved by the 1887 patent of another Vermont inventor, Solon E. Moore, whose great contribution was the "coiled fulcrum," made from a single wire, which joined the two grooved pieces of wood at the center of the clothespin.
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It's one tiny mistake in a tragicomedy of errors, but — if it's true — is a powerful demonstration of how the smallest lapse in cybersecurity, a single typo or click, can serve as the fulcrum on which an entire career, news cycle, or arguably election can be tipped.
I celebrate the elegance and engineering of heels: I've found myself holding up a single Christian Louboutin in a vain attempt to locate the fulcrum of balance among the leather, wood and raffia.
To minimize redundancy in the dataset, we used the Fulcrum program to collapse duplicate reads and return a single representative read with improved quality scores for each "read family" [ 27].
Unusually Steve Harmison, the fulcrum of England's Plan A, did not take a single wicket.
In past decades, players such as Pele and Diego Maradona were the creative fulcrum of any team they played in, often being singled out for special attention by opposition teams.
Others were reminiscent of the single-word abstract names popular with companies in the 1990s - Clipper, Clasp, Canopy, Patch, Ibex, Adepta, Tasq, Fulcrum, Cognosis, Capability.
An important corollary is to be especially wary of single grand theories based on historical uniqueness -- the premise that today we just happen to teeter at the fulcrum of history.
