Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
...home, football is the fall sport. The eight-team Pyramid League drew more than 100.000 spectators. League leaders were the undefeated Rebels, composed mainly of former Texas college stars, who trounced the R.A.F. last week At first, the R.A.F. thought footbalL was a sissy game. Pointing to padless rugby, they laughed at shoulder and hip pads offered by the Rebels. After the first practices, half the squad admitted their misjudgment, accepted the Rebels' offer. The other half was in the hospital...
Hidden History. Behind the New Georgia job lay a long-secret pyramid of accomplishment. Not until the A.A.C.S. held its first convention a few weeks ago at its Asheville (N.C.) headquarters did the Air Forces decide that the story of the world's largest communications system could now be told...
...Nile Valley. Some of Photographer Hoyningen-Huene's dramatically lighted pictures were made in Egypt, some among the monumental Egyptian sculptures now in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the book's more striking pictures is a restatement of an old theme: Instead of snapping the Pyramid of Cheops, Huene photographs its huge triangular shadow partially blacking the gleaming modern town at its base...
...retailer or chain that never carried higher-priced goods before is high & dry on the pyramid's peak. If a J. C. Penney store's top dress price last year was $5.98, and if there are none made today to sell at that low a price, Penney can only stop selling dresses...