Word: rectangularity
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...propellants, electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister, begin to fall off, as all are supposed to do. In the third picture, the missile, which reached an altitude of 325 ft., tilts back toward earth; it finally falls into a crater 140 ft. downrange. Exulted...
...invention marks the first radical change in the design of the tennis racquet in more than a century, Surely in the past tennis has seen its oddities. Witness Richard Sears, the first U.S. champion in 1881, who used a rectangular racquet. The tennis world has not been immune to other experimentation... a racquet shaped lia a pitchfork, diagonal stringing, crooked handles, and the infamous spaghetti racquet, a springly double-string device which, until its banishment, put a remarkable array of spins on the ball so looking back, it is no small miracle that today oversized racquets have succeeded...
Also on the Columbia were two devices designed to map various geological resources. An imaging radar, a 30-foot long rectangular antenna, bounced sonar waves off terrain and oceans to produce images of the reflecting surfaces. And a multispectral radiometer scanned selected areas at ten infrared wavelengths...
...allegory-the moon representing Christ, the ships serving as emblems of the voyage of life, and so on-but the recent revival of Friedrich's reputation has more to do with his ancestral relationship to more modern artists: to Edvard Munch, in particular, and Mark Rothko, whose rectangular "landscape" forms and transcendentalist pessimism now seem to preserve, with striking intensity, the romantic desire for that "original view of the infinite...
...this young David managed to outwit the Goliaths of the testing world? In the disputed question, the students were shown a diagram of two pyramids. One consisted of four triangles, the other of four triangles plus a rectangular base. All the triangles were equilateral (that is, their sides were of the same length) and of the same size. The problem: if the two pyramids were joined by setting two triangles next to each other so they precisely coincided, how many faces would remain "exposed" in the resulting solid? The testers expected simple reasoning to provide the answer: together the pyramids...