Word: tangental
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each...
When President Roosevelt seized his new issue, he was flying off at no radical tangent. He had the conservative precedent of Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, all of whom piously urged that the profits be taken out of war. A War Policies Commission headed by Republican Secretary of War Hurley drafted such a plan (TIME, May 25, 1931). It called for freezing prices during war and establishing taxes that would take 95% of any man's or corporation's war profits in excess of his average for the previous three years. It also called for drafting all man power?which...
...Boston audiences brainless? (Enter Mr. Dixon's practical nature.) Oh, they're not so stupid, and a stupid audience is probably the most painful thing I know. (Mr. Dixon's frankness returns.) No, I should say that the Army intelligence tests are too generous." Here the conversation followed a tangent into the merits of a Harvard education, but the actor's knowledge of literature exceeded that of the reporter, who departed, leaving the former before his glaring mirror, which might not have been as brief as the candle...
Sirs: It should interest you to know that a number of Dallas people are somewhat peeved that TIME went off on a tangent, or so it seems to them, in its issue of Oct. 30. They feel that all the power and the glory of Jim Farley's Texas visit should not have gone to Amon G. Carter, who played a part but not the whole show...
...your June 5 issue under Transportation, subhead "Green Ball," you state that Philadelphia & Western's streamlined railway equipment operates at 50 m.p.h. These cars were designed for speeds of 80 m.p.h. on level tangent track and have actually been clocked at 88 m.p.h. They make the 14-mi. journey between terminals at Philadelphia and Norristown in 16 minutes including one stop and two slowdowns en route...