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  • A hundred-ton funnel placed over the biggest leak didn't work, so the oil company is moving on to alternatives.

    BP To Rely On 'Junk' To Stop Spewing Oil 2010

  • The pinnacle of the mosque had vanished, and the roof line of the college itself looked as if a hundred-ton gun had been at work upon it.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Thus, in a remarkable passage that seems at first to owe more to Peter Novick and Norman Finkelstein than to Primo Levi, he writes:And now, please, save me from memory, heavy as a hundred-ton cast-iron mold, and allow me not to describe to you the hell in which we ended up!

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • Thus, in a remarkable passage that seems at first to owe more to Peter Novick and Norman Finkelstein than to Primo Levi, he writes:And now, please, save me from memory, heavy as a hundred-ton cast-iron mold, and allow me not to describe to you the hell in which we ended up!

    Isaac’s Torah 2008

  • An engineer who blithely ignored the details of those parts would soon find himself in charge of an immobile, hundred-ton paperweight.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • An engineer who blithely ignored the details of those parts would soon find himself in charge of an immobile, hundred-ton paperweight.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • An engineer who blithely ignored the details of those parts would soon find himself in charge of an immobile, hundred-ton paperweight.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • An engineer who blithely ignored the details of those parts would soon find himself in charge of an immobile, hundred-ton paperweight.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • The pinnacle of the mosque had vanished, and the roof line of the college itself looked as if a hundred-ton gun had been at work upon it.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

  • If we were going to bury CO2 at the ocean bottom, the best scheme might be to drop hundred-ton dry-ice torpedoes and let them bury themselves deep in the bottom sediments where the CO2 would be locked up as gas hydrate for the next ten millennia.

    The Speculist: The New Iron Age 2005

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