Word: diagonale
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Riverdale is as authentic an example of U.S. suburbia as diagonal parking and the 7:53. It reclines on a well-groomed, rocky hillside where The Bronx meets Westchester, gives glimpses of itself to commuters motoring by on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings...
TIME, Nov. 24, under "What is the Willmoto?" says: "...and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): 'I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew.'" The signal the Odenwald hoisted was F over M which has the above meaning. The signal...
The cruiser dispatched a boarding party. But before the boarding party could get to the "Willmoto," the merchantman hauled down her call and hoisted the flags N (blue & white checks) over O (yellow & red diagonal fields): "I am sinking; send boats for passengers and crew." Immediately afterward there were two...
Experts deny that there is a trend away from suspension bridges, though one such U.S. bridge (Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge) buckled in a high wind last November, and last year's prizewinner (the feathery Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) has recently been equipped with diagonal stays to check its...
"All around now the far and near echo of more voices grew and swelled until it seemed to beat solidly against the fronts of the big buildings in the long diagonal Terazia. From the two main avenues and from every side street the masses of people poured in and converged...