Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Literary Guild choice for October, and may serve only one useful purpose: to popularize the fascinating gimmick referred to in the title. The tontine (rhymes with "on green"), a fad which keeps reappearing through history, combines the suspense of the $64,000 question with the finances of the pyramid club. In Costain's tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money and interest are invested for 20 years; the interest is split annually among the survivors. As others die, those...
while in the lee of the Great Pyramid, a bearded dragoman told the Irishman's fortune: "Here in your hand I see nine rivers that you must cross . . . When you have reached the last river, you will . . . find what you have been looking...
...Pyramid on the Prairie. Sturdy and industrious, mostly of Scandinavian and German stock, North Dakotans are working during this time of no immediate crisis on a promising plan to prevent future dust bowls. Last week beneath the prairie sun, tractors and dump trucks, concrete mixers and elevation loaders, electric and power shovels and bulldozers bumped and clunked on the project that is the heart of North Dakota's new hope-the second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army...
...country now? How many people do you think will feel a burning interest in a medieval monk's "musical notation," or even in the 4th century Codex Vaticanus? If there is such value in antiquity, why not transport the Sphinx pebble by pebble (or at least an Egyptian pyramid) and set it up in some suitable bare spot...
...seems to have had the greatest sense of urgency about the meeting, although he never expressed a clear idea of what the agenda was to be. In preparation for the conference, the pharaonic hosts of specialists who toiled in the American bureaucracy sent up to the top of the pyramid briefing papers giving facts and recommendations on various points of policy...