Word: perpendicularity
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...Wang himself is to publish a book with only the appendix. Gilbert and Sullivan's operas may go on regardless, but Wang will die with the retirement (let us hope not, for another thirty years) of De Wolf Hopper. Indeed if Hopper had not erected it to its "present perpendicular attitude" "Wang" would be already dead and happy in "innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse...
...Bobby Barrett, challenger. After swinging heavily with his right once or twice, Barrett sank to the floor before Walker's battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face set in the "killer" look. Crash-indubitably, the welterweight champion of the world was still Mickey...
...Navy flag has a red field with a white circle in the centre, from which radiate eight white rays, two perpendicular, two horizontal, four diagonal. Inside the circle is a large five-pointed red star upon which is emblazoned a hammer and sickle in white...
There are a dozen tales in the collection and the reader's hair slowly rises until absolutely perpendicular to the scalp. Those whose hair naturally bristles six of the stories it will brush and lie flat in the meekest fashion imaginable...
...Cornell on Lake Cayuga by two lengths. The crew rowed very well but met its superior in the remarkably fast Cornell crew. After this race a slight modification was made in the stroke. The body swing was not carried so far back, going but little further than the perpendicular, the hands being brought in sharply at the finish. The feather is carried until the instant before the catch, the oars being turned sharply at the moment...