Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ozark Hills near Rogers, Ark. is the base of an uncompleted pyramid which was intended to be a hermetically sealed, steel & concrete structure 130 ft. high, and to house documents and relics of the present U. S. civilization for the benefit of future archeologists. Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below...
...theatres and the best production in the Empire, Gaumont is the biggest factor in British cinema. The Fox interest in Gaumont-British was picked up by William Fox in 1929 for about $20,000,000, a purchase which later played a large part in toppling the silvery Fox pyramid about Founder Fox's large ears...
...this part of the old formula that the Reserve Board changed last winter, upping margins from 45% to 55% (TIME, Feb. 3). The other formula was not only complicated but obsolete, since the majority of stocks have long since pushed through the upper limit of the anti-pyramid zone it created, again enabling marketeers to borrow and buy more stocks with their paper profits...
...body politic like the spirit over the waters. Its aim is, by precept and example, to leaven Russia's lump. To this end, half its membership is kept ''at the bench or in the mine;" the other half act as overseers to Russia's babeling pyramid of committees...
Thus the body of science is like a pyramid. The broad base rests on sense impressions. As one proceeds farther & farther from sense impressions, fewer & fewer systems are necessary to explain Nature, since each system explains more. Thus mechanics and heat are merged when heat is revealed as molecular motion. But this is far from the pyramid's base; a hand dipped in hot water feels heat, not motion. The apex of the pyramid, not yet reached, would be a single system containing the terms necessary to describe all phenomena...