Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right? Yes, said a panel of college math professors who reviewed the question. No, said Dan Lowen, who realized that if the triangular faces of the pyramids are placed together, something else happens as well. Four other triangles-two on each pyramid-form two planes, thereby reducing the number of exposed faces by still two more. So the new solid has only five faces in all. After making models of their own, the math experts confessed that Lowen was right. Admitted University of Georgia's Jeremy Kilpatrick: "Our faces are red." Testing Service Vice President Arthur Kroll added...
This year his grapplers began their schedule in fine style as they defeated crosstown rival Boston University by a single point. In that same triangular match, they trounced Plymouth State and since then have beaten four other opponents by healthy margins...
...female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth, is in the shape of a grand piano, and another, commemorating the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, depicts two heads, one weeping and the other angry, drawn in a style that coarsely parodies African tribal art. The triangular ceramic floor beneath the table bears the names of an additional 999 women, resurrected-or so one is encouraged to think-from the oubliette to which a paternalistic, male-centered version of history long ago consigned them...
...remarkably stupid to the engineers trying to educate them. A robot can cope with complex mathematical formulas, of course, but when it sees something through its TV camera, it has a hard time translating the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional reality. A robot instructed to look for a triangular object will waste valuable time fingering cubes and cylinders before
...magnitude of the piece strikes home before the message filters through. In the middle of a dark, black-shrouded room, an enormous triangular table rests on a raised triangular platform. (The triangle, an ancient symbol of feminine power, also expresses the feminist goal of an equal society for all, men and women alike.) The three wings of the table hold place settings for 39 women, from the females of early mythology to the women who inhabit the twentieth century, from the Primordial Goddess to Georgia O'Keefe...