Word: tangents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine...
...parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that she borrowed heavily from Gone With the Wind -- but only for the first 100 pages. At that point, says Deforges, she tired of the "literary game" and set off on her own tangent about her heroine's adventures in Vichy France...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT, which played its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159; integral, radical, u, dv; slapstick, slide rule, MIT."--The school cheer for MIT last Saturday during its first varsity football game in 87 years...
...fare as well. A valiant effort, but unrewarded with the tangent, visible manifestations of victory. No trophy to reward the long hours of work at Red Top. Humiliation and shame is the immediate legacy of their race. The sickening feeling of failure felt in the muscles when the Yale boat passed them and hung ahead out of reach...