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Examples

• I started in to make a number of these lamps, but I soon found that the X-ray had affected poisonously my assistant, Mr. Dally, so that his hair came out and his flesh commenced to ulcerate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The work done by a boy who raises a 5-pound knapsack to his shoulder would be 5x4, or 20, providing his shoulders were 4 feet from the ground. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The most conspicuous element in this is the wide-spread acceptance of the X-ray as a necessary tool of the medical profession. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And this extraordinary number is NEARLY equal to the number of days and nights in a year (365 x 2 = 730); and is therefore concerned with human life. Plato. The Republic.
• By connecting X to the gas-pipe we drew sparks from the gas-pipes in any part of the room by drawing an iron wire over the brass jet of the cock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was to this effect: The black porker's killed--weighed x stone--salted the sides--pig's pudding and leg of pork for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The approach end of the bed, approximately eighteen feet long, is constructed of maple, with each alternate strip of the 3 x 1-inch bed stock about eighteen inches shorter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Near the bottom of the apparatus is a bellows O, which contains a spring tending to keep the lever N, with which it is connected by a rod X, in the position shown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• For the girls, he felt all the contempt due to those who voted plus _x_ minus _y_ a dead bore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The X-ray was taken at the Ospedale Maggiore and the doctor who did it was excitable, efficient and cheerful. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• On the leveling strips at the extreme side of where the bed is to lie, a 3 x 1-inch maple strip is laid, widest side downward, with its finished one-inch edge nearest to the gutter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The third doctor, who carried the X-ray plates in their red envelopes, said nothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Newspapers and magazines were full of the remarkable X-ray achievements of surgeons in charge of the various European war hospitals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Thus we have (48 + 5 + 27) 100 = 1000 x 2 cubed. Plato. The Republic.

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