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Given: Any angle whatever. Required: to divide any angle into three equal parts, using only straight lines and circles in the construction. Thousands of mathematicians have sought to solve that problem. It is comparatively easy of solution with a peculiarly linked chain or by means of complex curves which no compass can draw on a flat surface; but impossible, mathematicians generally agree, with the simple tools of straightedge and compass...
...charge was relatively simple, the trial extremely complex. Conducted by Attorney General Sir William Jowitt and defended by "Britain's foremost barrister," Sir John Simon of Indian Commission fame, the trial resolved itself into a debate on business ethics with the text: Should a company director tell-and how much? Lord Kylsant thought a director should not tell...
That in itself means nothing. Small brains do not mean low intelligence. Intelligence shows up in folds, creases and wrinkles of the fore brain. The more complex the convolutions, the more intelligent the creature. The Jervois lady had a simple mind. She could grunt, squeal, gabble but probably could not talk...
...church "with the financial complex . . . raffles . . . roulette wheels . . . frenzied financing...
...capital in green Tyrolese kneepants, short jackets, feather-peaked hats. Composer Lehar, who still resides in Vienna, is the conductor-mem-ber of Vienna's Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts; shall their practices be designated as distinct professions, a member of each admitted...