Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sisters to ten years at hard labor. And so last week he went to meet Mme Guillotine before the Town Hall of Aix-en-Provence. The end of drama was not yet. Strapped quickly to the board, he was pushed beneath the knife. The executioner tripped the lever, the triangular blade crashed down-and jammed, half way down. "Imbeciles!" bellowed Murderer Sarret. "Be quick can't you!" For ten minutes he lay with his head on the block while perspiring, embarrassed workmen argued and tinkered. Executioner Deibler clutched at his weak heart. Then up went the knife to crash...
...spearhead is triangular. The two faces which meet at the attacking point are experimental physics and mathematical physics. Men on the experimental front are generally grouped under captains. A British veteran of 30 years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France...
...made to Asa Emory Phillips, Jr. '34 of Washington, D. C., president of the Debating Council and speaker in the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize speaking contests. The T. Jefferson Coolidge prize is awarded annually to the man who prepares the best speech for the tryouts in the Triangular debate. Honorable mention was given to George Gore '34 and Seymour M. Peyser...
...belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest...
...second series of trials held this week for the triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, the field was narrowed down to twelve men yesterday. Nineteen had been retained after the preliminary tryouts on Monday...