Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city, said he, is an organism, evolves like other living things. It begins as a village, roughly square in shape, then, constantly reaching out and expanding like an amoeba, it grows into an irregularly rectangular town, develops into a triangular metropolis, finally shoots out long tentacles or arms (the suburbs). All these processes Professor Bailey calls "conurbanisms." Within the city, also, changes in the organs take place. Thus in Chicago decentralization has been going on, and today there are 50 outlying business centres more conspicuous from the air than the Loop. Most startling observation by Professor Bailey is that...
There was a small, triangular shelf hung between the chimney and a gable, and here Vag could lie, almost completely stripped, protected from the interested gaze of strollers who might happen to glance up at the House roof. Here he could surrender himself to the rays of the hot sun--allow these rays to suck the energy out of him until he was their debilitated slave, let them gradually numb-his senses until he felt that, by the consummation of some mysterious union he had become part of a dazzling realm of sunlight. By rolling over a slightly so that...
...races were held over a triangular mile-long course starting from the Technology sailing pavilion. Thirteen foot dinghies, specially built for Tech three years ago, were used. Racing is open to all members of the College, and the Club's officers are planning a membership drive...
Climaxing its most successful season, the Debating Council meets Yale and Princeton this evening in the annual Triangular Debate. The debate with Princeton will be held at 7.45 o'clock in the Lowell House Student Common Room, while another Crimson team journeys to New Haven to meet Yale...
...triangular debate, a traditional feature of the Big Three debating season, was established early in the century. The men chosen for positions on the two Harvard teams receive prize medals from an endowment fund left to the Council by T. Jefferson Coolidge...