Word: perpendicularity
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Harvard ski racers will abandon their hickories for the season, officially anyway, after the traditional Harvard-Dartmouth slalom this Sunday, which will be set by Walter Prager on the near-perpendicular slepes of Tuckerman's Ravine...
...equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time its axis is about perpendicular to the sun. Thus the bombardment was broadside to the earth's north-south magnetic field. Dr. Stetson believes this happenchance helped make things worse...
...favorite: getting on all fours in a cage of chairs, barking. The word: perpendicular (purp-in-de-cooler...
...adult seriousness, the elemental sweep of their action and passion, their handling of great masses of people, their cunning use even of inanimate objects to reinforce drama. In all of them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...
...roofs of Turkish houses to insulate them for winter -he next wanted desperately to escape his shaking surroundings and get outdoors, thinking to find stability there. But if he gained the street, he found everything he usually depended on gone awry: ground no longer solid, walls no longer perpendicular, trees no longer inanimate...