Word: loring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golden Rectangle. There is more than enough Fibonacci lore to fill each issue. "We have a backlog of articles," says Brother Alfred proudly, "and we've been accepted by the mathematical fraternity." Mathematician Verner Hoggatt Jr., editor of the Quarterly, has gone to the extent of establishing the Fibonacci Bibliographical and Research Center at San Jose State College. He tours schools to lecture on Fibonacci numbers, vigorously advocates their use in teaching and has compiled a remarkable dossier on Fibonaccia...
...lore brag...
...stunning book with vast foldout copies of hand-decorated maps by 15th and 16th century master mapmakers. The text, a blend of history and cartographical lore, discusses the methods by which cartographers recorded the shape of the continents in the wake of discoveries by the great explorer-adventurers...
...authors feel constrained to impart a good deal of mollusk lore and cold facts under the impressive heading of malacology before getting down to the glories of this volume-82 color plates of some of the world's rarest shells. Polished, arranged, color coordinated and lighted to studio perfection, these examples attain a beauty they never possessed when their original owners were in residence. In vivo, mollusks are apt to be encrusted with organisms and covered with silty residues. Presumably, after "five hundred million years of inspired design," they get a little careless about surface appearances. Fortunately...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...