Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complex pyramid of theology can be regarded from many angles, but the best way to approach it is through Tillich's own life. For his thought was molded by his time...
...Herr Professor arrived at the Baltic seaside for his vacation, he began to pace the beach methodically, studying the terrain. Then, in coveralls, armed with an enormous shovel, he started to dig. Hour after hour, day after day, he labored, heaping up the sand in a big, flat-topped pyramid some twelve feet square, the sides banked at just the right angle to avoid cave-ins, the corners smoothed to knife-edge symmetry, a system of ditches carefully plotted to drain off the ground water, a ramp from the beach to his plateau of sand. When the pyramid was about...
Unlike the Pharaohs, Franco had no slaves for his pyramid, but he did have the next best thing. Political prisoners were brought to the Valley as laborers, until it was found that their inefficiency and subtle sabotage were more costly than regular workers. Since 1949, an average of 700 men have been working on the monument; at one point the number rose to 2.000. To keep everyone happy. Architect Diego Mendez paid them $2 a day, twice as much as they would have earned elsewhere...
Died. M. Zakaria Goneim, 48, United Arab Republic Egyptologist, who in 1953 discovered a pyramid built nearly 5,000 years ago in the Third Dynasty reign of Sekhem-Khet; apparently by his own hand (his body was found floating in the Nile); at Cairo. Heralded as one of the most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival...
...politician or a crusader or a general. He fits in any of a million executive, technical, or professional slots for which a college degree is pre-requisite. The leader trained in the college is not just a decision maker; he is anyone who sits on top of a prestige pyramid as reward for taking intellectual, social, or economic responsibility...