Word: euclid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This personage, the visible Emperor of the invisible Empire, with a retinue estimated at 60 souls, moved into Cleveland shortly before the Convention. He established headquarters in a private house on Euclid Avenue, which according to some accounts was rented, ac cording to others borrowed of a prominent Klansman. From there he conducted his efforts against an anti-Klan plank. His comparative success is at tested by the plank quoted above...
...picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography was known...
...during the next three weeks by Professor George D. Birkhoff '05, professor of mathematics at the University, in the Lowell Institute, Boston. In the first lecture at 8 o'clock this evening, Professor Birkhoff will speak on the men whose studies have contributed to the recent theory of relativity,--"Euclid, Newton, Faraday, and Einstein...
...teachings embrace all departments of knowledge, reinforced and decked out with a glamorous, heterogeneous heritage more or less accurately attributed to the Order's earliest days. Conservative theorists date this heritage from the dawn of English industry. More romantic Masons claim Solomon for the first Grand Master, and even Euclid...
...bill providing tor the sale of a site on S Street, Washington, for $185,000 and the purchase of another for a new French Embassy at 15th and Euclid Streets for the same amount was introduced into the Chamber of Deputies. It was explained that the opportunity to make the exchange came "as a favor" from the owner (Mrs. John B. Henderson) of the new site, which is far more valuable than...