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...yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally, as is the case with the modern basketball hoop. This arrangement made it necessary for the ball to be put cleanly through the ring from a point close to the wall, and eliminated any possibility of a rebound from the wall...
...racing car swept over the Etruscan Appennines last week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood in attitudes of somewhat disgruntled...
What Yale fears is not that there be too little chance for that acquaintanceship on the perpendicular plane which the Committee believes is a vital need at Harvard but rather the loss of what has been called "Yale solidarity". With numbers forcing the chapel regulations to undergo a decided change at Yale the Alumni Weekly believes that the chance for such solidarity is departing Theater is nothing except the fraternity system, if one interprets the Weekly correctly, to blind the college together. So they suggest a further development of that system...
Cold air emerged from these perpendicular cracks, suggesting the possibility of hidden chambers, such as those E. H. Thompson found in the pyramidal structure at Chichen Itza, called the Grave of the High Pries...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...