Word: perpendicularity
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...ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example, perpendicular through coat and trousers, but for the waistcoat navigating the torso horizontally. Pockets may trim their flaps back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne...
...public's interest in the new Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos. These were not the traditional automobile with a streamlined body attached but a completely new design. Instead of a frame and body the whole steel-trussed body is the frame. The steering wheel is almost perpendicular to the floor. The driver steers as he would a motorboat, with his hands instead of his arms. But, most startling of all, the job is as close to perfect streamlining as is practical without mounting the engine in the rear...
...reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light. In 1887 he and Edward W. Morley rigged up an interferometer, raced two beams of light against each other, one parallel to the earth's motion, the other perpendicular. The two beams arrived at their common destination at the same instant. This historic experiment discredited the ether-concept. Eighteen years later Albert Einstein posited the central feature of the "special theory of relativity"-that there was no such thing as the motion of bodies through a stationary ether, that...
Cutten: No. We didn't have to manipulate the market at that time. It was a perpendicular market-always going...
...exciting but comparatively simple job to pluck three Boy Scouts off a narrow ledge jutting from the perpendicular, 1,000-ft. face of Wallface Mountain near Lake Placid, N. Y. last week. The Scouts had climbed up 300 ft., could not advance or retreat. After a chilly night on the ledge they were sighted by search parties. A Coast Guard aviator flew a 1,000-ft. rope from Plattsburgh, hovered overhead signaling directions while res- cuers hauled the boys hand over hand, one at a time, up the cliff...