Word: perpendicularity
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...Running perpendicular to the lab wing is the office wing, which looks like an immense stairway. The top step--the one where the office wing meets the lab wing--is nine stories high. The bottom step, closest to the Yard, is only two stories high...
...Running perpendicular to the lab wing is the office wing, which looks like an immense stairway. The top step--the one where the office wing meets the lab wing--is nine stories high. The bottom step, closest to the Yard, is only two stories high...
...rare occasions in his life when Dan George needed anyone's help. A descendant of six generations of Tse-lal-watt chiefs, Dan George as a boy hunted on Seymour Mountain with bow and arrow (he scoffs at "white Indian" westerns: "No Indian holds a bow perpendicular. You must shoot with the bow horizontal so the arrow doesn't curve to the ground"). He helped his father log the tribe's timber and often paddled a canoe into Vancouver for supplies. Baptized a Roman Catholic like his father and grandfather, Dan George attended the reserve...
...hell were we to avoid it in the darkness? But there were no serious mishaps, maybe because we'd already had our accident-one freshmen crew had broadsided another. Last year's accident featured a freshman cox who decided to combat the offdock wind by heading in perpendicular to the dock and taking a power ten. This fall, one oarsman piled Harry's personal single into a bridge...
Pedrick first attacked a major problem for both duffers and professionals. Unless the face of the golf club meets the ball absolutely perpendicular to the intended line of flight, the ball will either hook off to one side of the fairway or slice to the other. Sent into a spin by a glancing blow from the club, the ball acts like an airfoil; higher pressure develops on the side spinning in the direction of forward motion and pushes the ball toward the opposite side...