Word: trapeziform
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Yesterday the society's five altruists arrived in the hall with adilades, plane tables, and ten pounds of surveying equipment, and the one hour later announced that the dining hall wasn't trapezoidal, but trapeziform...
...Trapezoidal means like a trapezoid, or two sides parallel," William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the group, said. Actually it's trapeziform, or trapezate, like a trapezium, or no sides parallel...
Claiming that this was "the only trapeziform dining hall in America," Mason said the Society would launch a public enlightenment campaign to acquaint people with the new tradition...