Word: linearly
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Brooks's first abstractions were linear affairs, filled with curvy arabesques and an occasional dribble like those of his friend Jackson Pollock. He tried titling them by number, then by letter, now puts nonsense syllables together to make names. Nado, one of his more recent paintings, shows his increased attention to straight lines that act both as a "container and as a dispersing agent." These lines serve not so much to limit areas of what he calls his "funny-paper colors" as to interrupt the contours of the color areas and to stimulate...
Research began when the scientists administered their medicine (formula: 1¾ oz. dry gin + ¼ oz. vermouth + 1 olive). Tests ended "at saturation," when nobody cares. The conclusion: "A linear relationship of 2 db increase of tolerance per martini until the third cocktail became apparent. At this point, another physiological condition gradually occurs within the subject, causing the tolerance to increase on a cumulative basis of 4 db per cocktail until saturation...
Britain's schoolchildren grapple for years with three different and conflicting methods of measuring weight (avoirdupois, troy and apothecaries' table), three ways of measuring length (linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half...
...reform, the House of Commons debated a weights and measures bill no less momentous than the Act of 1824 that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will...
...Nobel Prizewinning Exobiologist Joshua Lederberg's effort to build a TV-microscope to land on Mars and sample possible life there. Even more conducive to Big Science at Palo Alto is Sterling's most audacious 1962 coup: a $114 million AEC contract to build a two-mile linear accelerator, which eventually will be the world's most powerful atom smasher...