Word: conic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought off such liberal trends as dismissal in 1722 of President Timothy Cutler for "Episcopism," the abolition just prior to the Revolution of corporal punishment ("cuffing" of an offender's ears by the President), and an early nineteenth century uprising against the present student government, known mysteriously as "the Conic Sections Rebellion," to emerge in the twentieth century as the richest corporation in Connecticut, over the second-place Skull and Bones...
This pattern is not visible to the eye, nor when projected. But the light from a projector lamp is diverted by the aberration patterns into a conic shape that spreads out over the lens. Charles Birch-Field's iriscope adds the colors-reds in the outer regions of the lens, blues in the inner...