Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe. Finally the wandering cornetist comes home and plays Wonderful One in the parlor. His father exclaims: "Polestar and pyramid, boy-play it again!" As the boy plays it again, the curtain falls...
...acres of White House lawn turned green overnight; gaspowered, rubber-tired lawn mowers began to whir over the sward's long roll, barbering the Kentucky bluegrass to the regulation two inches. A man painted the tennis-court backstop; other men with shears trimmed the California privet hedges in pyramid style...
Most mature fish are carnivorous. Yet in the pyramid of life there must be more plant eaters than flesh eaters. Chief vegetarians of the oceans are copepods-tiny, flealike crustaceans related to lobsters and crabs. Copepods browse on the vast, undulating pastures of diatoms, converting plant life into animal life. Thereafter the cold, predatory struggle of the seas begins. On the copepods feed small fish like herring. On these feed larger fish like cod, as well as marine birds, seals, whales. Thus the importance of diatoms...
...George Freedley & John A. Reeves's A History of the Theatre (Crown; $3), a fat review of what has happened from Egypt's Pyramid Texts of 4000-3200 B.C. to Manhattan's Panama Hattie...
...primary object of this new system is to develop the individual student's work in a pyramid, with a strong foundation of the general field of English literature, and an intricate structure pointing to the particular point in which he is interested. In the past a survey knowledge was sought, with only the honor thesis affording any opportunity for individual expression...