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Critics have visited and been duly impressed by the city's new trophy buildings, such as the "Bird's Nest" stadium, the giant new home for state broadcaster China Central Television and the egg-shape National Center for the Performing Arts. Even though the latter two aren't related to the Olympics, they have been taken as symbols of a new, dynamic China, never mind that they are products of a colossal state effort.

World Seeks a Label to Define the Beijing Games 2008

Powerseed is a small egg-shape gadget designed to slow down eaters.

The Gadget That Came to Dinner | Impact Lab 2005

This time as he chipped off the chalky outer covering, he carefully shaped the stone so that the nucleus of flint remaining was a roughly flattened egg-shape.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

Beat the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth, add three heaping teaspoonfuls of granulated sugar, and when the milk comes to the boiling point drop the whites of eggs into it by tablespoonfuls in egg-shape, turn them over in the hot milk for a few seconds, repeat until all are done, drain them and return the milk to the saucepan.

The Golden Age Cook Book Henrietta Latham Dwight

The form illustrated, Fig. 247, was for a 12-ft. 3-in. sewer; in this case a roof form alone was used, but full circular and egg-shape forms are made.

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Halbert Powers Gillette

Gleaming slivers separated from the surface, converged, assumed an egg-shape and bloomed into

The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

Great expedition is necessary in making this sweet dish, as, if the meringues are not put into the oven as soon as the sugar and eggs are mixed, the former melts and the mixture would run on the paper instead of keeping its egg-shape.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

The children wanted to know where that name came from, and he told them it was what the Eskimos of the Polar regions called their egg-shape huts of ice and snow.

The Curlytops and Their Playmates or Jolly Times Through the Holidays Howard Roger Garis 1917

And then it is not shaped so much like a round dome as the sky of the earth, but, more of an egg-shape, rises to a great towering height in the middle, appearing far more lofty than the other.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

It must be slightly egg-shape, or prolate -- extended in the direction of the earth; its earth-pointing diameter being a few hundred feet longer than its visible diameter; a cause slight enough, but nevertheless sufficient to maintain stability, except under the action of a distinct disturbing cause.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895