Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself. A more valuable reminder would be railroad tracks across Siberia--which could spell out his name. Perhaps glass-walled skyscrapers with his portrait in stained-glass would work. Irrigation canals could trace his profile. Of course he could resort to the time tested method by building a pyramid...
...Walter (The Incredible Flutist) Piston's Symphony No. 5, probably his best work to date. It began with something that sounded suspiciously like forest murmurs, complete with flute and pizzicato strings. But soon it built a blazing climax on a pyramid of harmonies, brass on winds on strings, in orchestration as solid as Tchaikovsky's. The first movement, indeed, was a rejuvenated Piston; in the other two, however, he reached his high points of lyricism without seeming to aim for them, leaving a feeling of puzzlement...
...topped Lincoln, Ike broke his doctors' orders and waved strenuously to thousands of spectators lined along the curbs. Military bands thumped in greeting, while here and there "We Like Ike" signs festooned sober-faced Government buildings. When he stepped into the White House, which seemed drowsy as a pyramid after nearly two months, Washington found its focus again. More than any other President, Dwight Eisenhower had tried to distribute and delegate the awesome powers of his office. Yet, as all the world knew, the responsibility even in ; illness remained his. His return to Washington meant that he had shouldered...
Changing the Rule. In 1929's wide-open trading, brokers had wide latitude, could set margin requirements as low as 20%. Stock pools, and a hundred other maneuvers to manipulate the market, were part of the game. Even companies themselves helped pyramid the shaky market, dumping in funds for margin buying. When the funds were pulled out, it helped bring on the collapse...
...that of the Mayans, who used only three symbols-a dot (1), a dash (5), and an oval that could multiply each number 20 times. Meanwhile, other civilizations had other inventions. The Egyptians had to find ways to make a right angle so that the base of each pyramid would be an absolute square; they also had to find out how to measure land for taxes. Thus emerged their first knowledge of what became geometry (named after the Greek words meaning earth and measure...