In stark contrast to these impulsive students with their sense of entitlement were the brutish diggers, who departed and returned on the same contraptions.
He was talking to a friend on 67th street who was walking to work wearing the same kind of contraption.
Astron 35SQ crystal-controlled contraption was approximately the same price as a Toyota Corolla.
What the JNLWD would like is a far smaller contraption to accomplish the same goal, replacing the enormous, super-cooled "gyrotron" with solid-state electronics, perhaps, or compact lasers.
However, excitement over the innovation was tempered by the fact that a virtually identical contraption was unveiled at the same expo in 2010 without catching on.
This contraption is from DODOcase, the same San Francisco-based startup that created the make-a-tablet-look-like-a-book craze.
I grumbled something about my grandma having the same model and slipped on the mammoth contraption.
Unlikely as it seems, the music that emerges from this contraption is strangely haunting – antique and jangly, yet at the same time fresh, elegant and surprising.
Thus, aircraft began as bird-like contraptions, but evolved into fish-like objects for the same fluid-dynamic reasons that caused fish to evolve the way they did.
The anti-Bill alliance is a contraption tried in myriad forms over the years — and always with the same simple result: It goes nowhere.
