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Even a geometer could not calculate all the angles in squash-at least not quickly enough to make the shots. Squash is a game played on a walled, rectangular court (18½ ft. by 32 ft. in the U.S. game), and all four sides are playing surfaces. The ball is a hard-rubber affair, somewhat larger than a golf ball; the handle of the racket is longer than that of a tennis racket, but the head is smaller. A crack squash player needs stamina and strong wrists; he must be puma-quick on his feet, and know all the angles...
...just a short notice in Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. "A hygienic acoustic device for confessors," it read, "has met with . . . great praise. It is a patented pigeonhole called Filtravox, usually rectangular in shape, but capable of being applied to any opening in the confessional. Confessors have too often been exposed to the bad breath of penitents, who may even be ill ... The airtight membrane of this device protects the confessors from contagious germs...
...expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula. The 208 rectangular houses, some of them 40 ft. long, are arranged in parallel rows for about a mile along the shore. The walls and roofs are gone, but the depressed floors remain. From under the dirt came nearly 3,000 tools, weapons and art objects. The Dorset people apparently had no boats, but they did have sledges which must have been pulled by humans, rather than dogs, because the Dorset dogs were too small for mushing...
More than over the Administration is concerned with college adjustments within the large educational community of Princeton, N. J. The college and the graduate school share the same faculty but unlike the Harvard situation the two bodies have little influence on each other. The college within its rectangular block and the graduate school remains across Alexander Street...
First Day. An awareness that failure could shatter the Atlantic alliance lent a grave and urgent air to the chandeliered conference room where the nine foreign ministers assembled at the invitation of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister...