Word: polygon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contracts for the Rose and the Fortune, neighboring rival theaters built by Peter Streete, the master carpenter who constructed the old Globe, were studied for guidance. The most basic questions were troublesome. A group of academics was convened in 1992 to settle the controversy over how many sides the polygon structure should have. The scholars voted--14 to 6--for 20 sides...
...mockery of age-old racial categories and attitudes. Since 1970, the number of multiracial children has quadrupled to more than 2 million, according to the Bureau of the Census. The color line once drawn between blacks and whites--or more precisely between whites and nonwhites--is breaking into a polygon of dueling ethnicities, each fighting for its place...