As a youngster I had planned to study architecture, as I had developed some talent at the drawing board.
Each of the two inventors had his own drawing board, designed to swing out from the wall at the press of a button.
His drawing board was littered with sketches and diagrams when the phone rang, breaking in on his thoughts.
Most architects still hold to the old-fashioned drawing boards supported upon trestles, and mostly from the simple inertia of custom.
There was a desk supporting a drawing board, with a chair set before it.
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They were projected onto adrawingboardand the cell was drawn.
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At thedrawingboardthe struggle is to find that difficult synthesis that, when discovered, seems self-evidently correct.
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Then, most critically of all, he raises the third item on his agenda which he admits is hardly off thedrawingboard.
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The endocardial contour of an end-systolic and an end-diastolic frame was digitized with a light pen on an electronicdrawingboard.
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If the predictions are completely wrong, then it is back to thedrawingboard.
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We see the configuration of marks on thedrawingboardor computer screen as triangles, squares, circles, diamonds.
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On the table are a digitaldrawingboardand an electronic pen.
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A limitation has to be admitted: the interviewed architects were all educated within thedrawingboardand sketchbook tradition.
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In 1930, lawmakers returned to thedrawingboard, and attempted to define nationality with greater precision.
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Serial-fluorescence micrographs were taken at different focal planes, projected onto adrawingboardand the cell was drawn.
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Strokes can be made with the electronic pen and are then projected on thedrawingboardimmediately; as a consequence, it feels like working with a normal workbook.
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If one is an engineer, then one will have an electronicdrawingboardwith its light pencil.
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The coordination of economic policies should not just be left on thedrawingboard.
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The aircraft reached thedrawingboardand production only after the idea was quite clear.
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The latter is still on thedrawingboardand is unlikely ever to get off it.
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