Word: spheroid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replacement. Geography is a valuable study; the factors of terrain are key determinants in social and political development of the world's peoples. A study of the appropriate geography would seem to be a necessity in the Regional Studies Program; suitable courses would also grace undergraduate programs. Whether flat, spheroid, or pear-shaped, the world could be studied with profit at Harvard...
Rotating majestically, the oblate-spheroid world in miniature dominates the lobbies of the Cowles family's Des Moines Register and Tribune, and its Minneapolis Tribune and Star. The identical globes (6 ft. in diameter, 19 ft. in circumference) turn once every three minutes, display the time of day anywhere on the earth's surface with accessory sets of clocks. For the four Cowles newspapers, the globes have a heart-of-America symbolism that is apt and obvious: far more than any Midwestern rival, the papers emphasize reporting and editorials that attempt to tell how the world is spinning...
...court is called the service side; the other the hazard side, for reasons seen to become obvious. The "dedans," the "grille," and the "winning gallery" are three exotic names for holes which harass the unfortunate on the hazard side. If the server hits the 2 1/4-inch cloth spheroid with which the game is played into any of those holes, he wins the point...
...refer you to the item on pages 413-414 of Astronomy and Cosmogony (the Cambridge University Press 1929) by Sir James Jeans. It might just be that the "disc" became so shaped only after rotating at a highly excessive speed, which you will find will occur to any oblate spheroid when a critical speed of rotation is reached...