Word: trapezium
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...busy day, I covered the appearance of Jane Russell at a demonstration by a student committee that the Leverett House Dining Hall was geometrically a trapezium. Miss (sic) Russell declined to have her measurements taken by student anthropologists and sociologists with a caliper that looked like ice tongs. I treasure her picture signed: "To Hoag, with love. Jane...
...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...
...Cumaean Rock and prowl speculatively through its grottoes. To the south side of the Rock are vineyards, whose owners use the caves to store their wine tuns. Something in one of the cellars attracted Dr. Maiuri's attention. He picked at a wall, found that it blocked a trapezium-shaped passageway 20 ft. high, 10 ft. wide at the bottom, 40 ft. long. Lateral tunnels led to the sheer face of the Cumaean Rock. The tunnels admitted light...
...hate to be trapezium...
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