Word: apex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rand Herron reached Alexandria on his way home. Egypt has no mountain peaks, but there remain the pyramids. Herron motored out to Gizeh and scrambled up the huge blocks of the Great Pyramid with no trouble at all. Then he tried the smaller (477½ ft.) Second Pyramid whose apex still retains much of its original smooth alabaster sheathing. Hoisting himself confidently from one 4-ft. block to the next Alpinist Herron reached the top, stood up and waved to his friends. Then, somehow, he slipped. A sprawling black spider to the horrified eyes below, his body slithered...
...Lindbergh centrifuge the reservoir for blood is a conical chamber resembling an ocarina. Piercing the butt end and extending almost to the apex is a thin tube with an adjustable inlet. By means of the inlet arm the "ocarina" is fixed horizontally to a vertical reservoir of replacement fluid. As the machine rotates and produces a centrifugal force up to 650 times gravity, the corpuscles settle out of the blood. Replacement fluid flows into the "ocarina" chamber, dilutes the original fluid which flows off through a vent. In a first test of 15 minutes Col. Lindbergh demonstrated that only...
Broadway and Seventh Avenue come together to form an acute triangle five blocks long with Times Square at its apex, Longacre Square at its base. Here is the centre of Manhattan's theatrical district, "The Gay White Way," the most crowded part of the city by night and the spot that strangers want to see first. Such pleasure-bent strangers and New Yorkers as have gone there between 7 and 10 o'clock any evening in the past few weeks have viewed an interesting sight: a line of shabby men (a few women among them), chins deep...
...conquest of Columbia. Moreover, the Crimson is at full strength for the first time this year today and will undoubtedly start off with the famous "pony backfield" of last year in the lineup, with the ever reliable Crickard in reserve. The line also will be at the apex of its power...
Critic Josephson thinks the "humanities" are "threatened" by our machine civilization, has taken the case of the artist as "a short cut, a convenient symbol." Says he: "In him [the artist] we may see the human faculties, as against the animal or automatic appetites, at their apex: human intensity stated in its highest terms, as Henry Adams would say." The great U. S. artists, says Josephson, have influenced Europe before the U. S.: "the test of a great American artist . . . is whether he is a good boomerang...