Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim Martin Biles, an ex-Army pilot who hurled his steel-tipped javelin 225 ft. 9 in. (the world's record, held by a Finn: 258 ft. 2f in.). In the twilight, before 20,000 cheering fans, Biles climbed up to the top step of the victors' pyramid, flanked by the two runners-up on lower steps, and was ceremoniously presented as a member of the Olympic squad...
Over the Hurdle? Both the merged companies, though separately owned, were already controlled by the complex holding company pyramid of the Alexander and Baldwin families. In putting both companies into one corporate pocket, Frank Baldwin had several cogent reasons...
Whatever the truth, the proposed merger would make Odeon the prime company of Rank's financial pyramid...
...York Times' annual "Fashions of the Times," sportive designers presented living caricatures of the three basic silhouettes of the "New Look" (see cut): the melon, the pyramid, and the "derrière de Paris...
...amazingly regular cycles.* The trick is timing: to pick the right idea out of the past at the right time in the present. (This year's much touted "domino coat," which makes a woman look as if she were peering out of a tent, is nothing but the pyramid coat...