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Word: triangular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer long the challengers and defenders will race separately until, some time before Sept. 8, both sides will have picked their representatives. Tourists in Newport will not see much of this, or in many cases, even look for it. On the spectator craft flanking the triangular 24.3-mile course, good binoculars are necessary just to tell one boat from the other. Back in town, a lot of broiling people in madras shorts and Top-Siders will drink large quantities of beer, and toast being at the scene of an international occasion. Nobody is quite sure what is going on-something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stand By to Repel Raiders | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...religious pilgrimage. His first memory is of being hoisted above the heads of adults during an Orthodox service so that he could see what was happening: "Through a crowded church passed a number of men from the Cheka, the early form of security services, in their high, triangular caps, of course without taking their hats off as is the custom in any church. They tramped through all the way to the altar and began grabbing all the sacred vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return to God | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...triangular device with a string-suspension system won the best engineered category...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Egg School | 5/4/1983 | See Source »

Tomorrow the Crimson returns to Stow Acres in another triangular match against MIT and Northeastern, as the "definite favorites," according to Baker. Thursday Harvard hosts Boston College at The Country club in Brookline, a match which should provide a good preview...

Author: By Constance M. Laide, | Title: Golfers Battle Rain and Amherst, Finish Second in Three--Way Match | 4/12/1983 | See Source »

...teach the triangular Logo turtle a new command-in effect, to write a computer program-the child simply types the word TO followed by some step-by-step instructions. For example, here is a program that tells the computer to draw a circle on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Easy Does It | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

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