Word: protractor
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...demonstrate how far removed trend-setting art has become from any concern with society, reality, human interest or popular taste: the multicolored cartwheels, half-moons and pie cuts look as though they had been stamped out on a machine. They were, in fact, designed with the aid of a protractor and compass, although unlike many minimal sculptors, Stella still believes in executing his works by hand. The paintings were named (Sabra, Sinjerli) for ancient cities in Asia Minor only because Stella has been looking at plans for circular cities in a book on Islamic architecture...
...which cancel each other out and leave a good balance, with no worse effect than a shortening of the trunk. And Margie's case was severe. Special Surgery doctors grade cases by a technique developed by one of their leading scoliosis specialists. Dr. John R. Cobb; with a protractor, applied to the top and bottom vertebrae of the curve on the X ray, they measure the total deviation from a straight line. Up to 30° is rated mild, rarely needing operation; 30° to 60° is moderate, and beyond that, severe. Margie's had reached...
...revue has been presented before, but as the fellow in the next seat remarked, "the material never gets stale." Lehrer has more angles than a protractor. He uses the tired Joke of the Radcliffe girl's supposed unattractiveness, but by casting the young lady as "The Thing" (Boom-boom-boom), he leaves his audience roaring...
...Centrifuge. 4. Protractor...
...case, protractor, odds and ends, and my enormous shoes...