Word: asinorum
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...pans asinorum and a Bridge of Sighs...
That Luclid took toll at as Asinorum...
Geometry is not class-conscious. The pons asinorum is free to all comers and even the eternal triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...print the correction! A month or two ago you blundered on "pons asinorum." Some half-baked brain sent in a letter attempting to correct you ; the correction was worse than your original error. I sent you a letter straightening the thing out. You did not print...
...TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition...