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Elsewhere in The Netherlands, Architect Breuer was finding tougher going. His design for a modern U.S. embassy on the linden-tree-shaded Lange Voorhout in The Hague had the conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...
...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...
Chad. First to plunge was the French Equatorial African colony of Chad (see map), a ragged trapezoid of sand dunes, wasteland and jungle strategically situated between Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Italian Libya (area: 461,202 sq.mi.; population: 549 whites, 1,432,000 natives). Lake Chad, on its western frontier, is an important junction of caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed...
...decorating the dining room, one of the handsomest features of the House Plan, the architects made skilful use of two circles, of unequal size, and an oval, to conceal through optical illusion the fact that the room, following the plot of ground on which it is built, is a trapezoid. The Junior Common Room, while too small for any large House function, offers a pleasant gathering place for after dinner coffee and the various talks which have been given. Set apart from the students is the Senior Common room which justifies its existence as a cloak room for the Tutors...
Until I make a trapezoid...