Word: perpendicularity
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...first expedition to the Pierre Saint-Martin, in 1951, discovered two enormous caves and a river below, the 1,000-ft. perpendicular descent into the mountain chimney. Lured on a second expedition into the hole last year as the official photographer, Tazieff saw French Speleologist Marcel Louberis fall from a snapped cable and break his back on the rocks below. Thirty-six hours later, with reporters and photographers swarming around the entrance to the hole and the world waiting for news, the suspense drama of the year ended tragically as Loubens died (TIME...
...makes the monster act. As it turns around an axis parallel to a line between the earth's poles, its projected stars move through the artificial heaven just as the earth's rotation seems to move the real stars overhead. When the monster swings about another axis (perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic), the north pole of the sky seems to move in a circle-the same circle that it makes every 26,000 years. Thus, the lecturer can move the stars through time: turn them back to 3,000 B.C. when Alpha Draconis was the earth...
...whole tribe of modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their paws on one and make one feel the convulsive shivering which animates their wretched bodies." But Gide attributed an independent value to art; in a striking phrase, he wrote that art and religion "must remain . . . perpendicular to each other...
...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...
...good example of Browning's new style is Seesaw, a group of children teeter-tottering dizzily up a perpendicular canvas. Another Browning trick: painting her Harlemites from above, so that the figures can be seen against a background of pavement litter and sidewalk doodles...