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  • It nearly killed him to buy white shirts and a suit for his new job in Euclid.†   (source)
  • In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.†   (source)
  • He could always reason things out if he had enough time, and he had read Euclid when he was five, but the test had a time limit so there wouldn't be a chance to think.†   (source)
  • Sir, what use is Euclid and all the lines when the Germans are bombing everything that stands?†   (source)
  • University Circle, named for the turnaround of the Euclid Avenue trolley from downtown, was home to Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the jewel of the neighborhood—Severance Hall The Georgian-style home of the Cleveland Orchestra—financed by John Long Severance, the son of John D. Rockefeller's treasurer—was hailed as an architectural triumph and had hosted its first concert in 1931, with conductor Nikolai Sokoloff…†   (source)
  • It had long been sought in vain, he said, to demonstrate the axiom known as Euclid's fifth postulate and this search was the start of the crisis.†   (source)
  • We drove off campus and up Euclid, where many students lived in run-down wooden houses.†   (source)
  • Jose Faz would bring his son on errands to the Mart down on Euclid and Flores streets.†   (source)
  • Recalling their youth, one of his brothers would describe Nathanael during lulls in the clamor of the foundry, seated near the great trip-hammer, a leather-bound volume of Euclid in hand, calmly studying.†   (source)
  • In 1621 a Latin translation was published of Diophantus' Arithmetica which contained a complete compilation of the number theories that Pythagoras, Euclid, and other ancient mathematicians had formulated.†   (source)
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  • "And human anatomy, I see, and Euclid's Geometry, or are you just recopying the text?"†   (source)
  • A huge, illuminated geodesic dome it is, providing an overhead view with which Euclid would have been pleased.†   (source)
  • He regarded every public measure that came before him, a fellow Senator observed, as though it were an abstract proposition from Euclid, unfettered by considerations of political appeal.†   (source)
  • When we moved to Euclid, one of the first things I did was to unpack gifts my mother had given me.†   (source)
  • Euclid brings us grace and beauty and elegance.†   (source)
  • And he retains besides all Euclid's other axioms.†   (source)
  • Now tell me, Clohessy, is that master of yours talking to you about Euclid?†   (source)
  • Now, repeat after me, Anyone who doesn't understand the theorems of Euclid is an idiot.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky.†   (source)
  • Tell him to teach the long division and leave Euclid to me.†   (source)
  • Tell him Euclid is mine, Mr. O'Halloran, or I'll put a stop to his gallop.†   (source)
  • I said we should get down on our two knees and thank God for Euclid.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid the bicycle would have no wheel.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid the Spitfire could not dart from cloud to cloud.†   (source)
  • Sir, what's a theorem and what's a Euclid?†   (source)
  • To love Euclid is to be alone in this world.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid, boys, mathematics would be a poor doddering thing.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid we wouldn't be able to go from here to there.†   (source)
  • He's saying there would be no school without Euclid.†   (source)
  • Paddy Clohessy mutters behind me, Feckin' Euclid.†   (source)
  • Euclid is complete in himself and divine in application.†   (source)
  • He says anyone who doesn't understand the theorems of Euclid is an idiot.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid this very school could never have been built.†   (source)
  • Mr. O'Halloran says, Now, Mr. O'Neill, I have asked you before to stay away from Euclid.†   (source)
  • Oh, Euclid, I suppose.†   (source)
  • He said he would rent out the farm, hire someone to care for the animals and the crops, and rent a house for us in Euclid.†   (source)
  • So they reversed Euclid's postulate.†   (source)
  • I didn't help pack, but when the time came, I climbed in the car and joined my father for our move to Euclid.†   (source)
  • Euclid's postulate of parallels, which states that through a given point there's not more than one parallel line to a given straight line, we usually learn in tenth-grade geometry.†   (source)
  • On that long day that my father and I left the farm behind and drove to Euclid, I wished that my father was not such a good man, so there would be someone to blame for my mother's leaving.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it's the original line that gave rise to Euclid's understanding of lineness; a reference line from which was derived the original calculations of the first astronomers that charted the stars.†   (source)
  • Because I first saw Phoebe on the day my father and I moved to Euclid, I began my story of Phoebe with the visit to the red-headed Margaret Cadaver's, where I also met Mrs. Partridge, her elderly mother.†   (source)
  • They did this by reasoning that if there were any way to reduce Euclid's postulate to other, surer axioms, another effect would also be noticeable: a reversal of Euclid's postulate would create logical contradictions in the geometry.†   (source)
  • Finally, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and almost at the same time, a Hungarian and a Russian…Bolyai and Lobachevski…established irrefutably that a proof of Euclid's fifth postulate is impossible.†   (source)
  • Just over a year ago, my father plucked me up like a weed and took me and all our belongings (no, that is not true—he did not bring the chestnut tree, the willow, the maple, the hayloft, or the swimming hole, which all belonged to me) and we drove three hundred miles straight north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio.†   (source)
  • A German named Riemann appeared with another unshakable system of geometry which throws overboard not only Euclid's postulate, but also the first axiom, which states that only one straight line can pass through two points.†   (source)
  • The boy who wants to know something about the grace, elegance and beauty of Euclid can go nowhere but up.†   (source)
  • Without Euclid St. Joseph could not have been a carpenter for carpentry is geometry and geometry is carpentry.†   (source)
  • After school we tell Brendan he has to ask the question tomorrow, What use is Euclid and all those lines that go on forever when the Germans are bombing everything?†   (source)
  • Malachy is in fifth class now with Mr. O'Dea and he likes to tell everyone he's learning the big red catechism for Confirmation and Mr. O'Dea is telling them all about state of grace and Euclid and how the English tormented the Irish for eight hundred long years.†   (source)
  • Euclid, boys, was a Greek.†   (source)
  • What use is Euclid? he says.†   (source)
  • Euclid was a Greek.†   (source)
  • No more Euclid.†   (source)
  • "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid," he wrote, which was also an overstatement, but one certain to please his fellow classical scholar at Quincy.†   (source)
  • We went with some accuracy through the geometry in the Preceptor, the eight books of Simpson's Euclid in Latin…… We went through plane geometry …. algebra, and the decimal fractions, arithmetical and geometrical proportions…… I then attempted a sublime flight and endeavored to give him some idea of the differential method of calculations ….†   (source)
  • She was fascinated by Euclid's discovery in about 300 BC that a perfect number is always a multiple of two numbers, in which one number is a power of 2 and the second consists of the difference between the next power of 2 and 1.†   (source)
  • I'm inclined to agree with Euclid, I don't think these two parallels will ever meet.†   (source)
  • "As our old friend Euclid says," murmured Poirot.†   (source)
  • Now, with a situation developing before his eyes which has always been notoriously difficult of solution—so difficult that it has been given a label and called the Eternal Triangle, as if it were a geometrical problem like the Pons Asinorum in Euclid—Arthur was only able to retreat It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat.†   (source)
  • Considering how much world there was to catch up with--Asurbanipal, Euclid, Alaric, Metternich, Madison, Blackhawk--if you didn't devote your whole life to it, how were you ever going to do it?†   (source)
  • Sometimes I had glimpses of Grandma in the parlor, at the light end of the dark hallway, in her disconnection from us, waiting by herself beside the Crystal-Palace turret of the stove, in dipping bloomers and starched dress with hem as stiff as a line of Euclid.†   (source)
  • Life isn't long enough to work out everything in Euclid problems before you believe it.†   (source)
  • "Euclid, my lad,—why, what's that?" said Mr. Tulliver.†   (source)
  • But at last he added: "And make Mr. Stelling say I sha'n't do Euclid any more.†   (source)
  • Latin and Euclid, and those things?" said Tom.†   (source)
  • But oh, Diana, tomorrow the geometry exam comes off and when I think of it it takes every bit of determination I possess to keep from opening my Euclid.†   (source)
  • Euclid P. Tinker?†   (source)
  • I have done some mathematics, including the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid; and algebra as far as simple equations.†   (source)
  • It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.†   (source)
  • With the same unerring instinct Mr. Stelling set to work at his natural method of instilling the Eton Grammar and Euclid into the mind of Tom Tulliver.†   (source)
  • They took De Foe to their bosoms, instead of Euclid, and seemed to be on the whole more comforted by Goldsmith than by Cocker.†   (source)
  • If he can, then is it as marvellous a thing in him, as if a man were able simultaneously to go through the demonstrations of two distinct problems in Euclid.†   (source)
  • "Yes, it is Latin," my uncle went on; "but it is Latin confused and in disorder; "PERTUBATA SEU INORDINATA," as Euclid has it."†   (source)
  • But you must note this: if God exists and if He really did create the world, then, as we all know, He created it according to the geometry of Euclid and the human mind with the conception of only three dimensions in space.†   (source)
  • Yet the introduction of this resistance produces so strong an impression of heartlessness nowadays that a distinguished critic has summed up the impression made on him by Mrs Warren's Profession, by declaring that "the difference between the spirit of Tolstoy and the spirit of Mr Shaw is the difference between the spirit of Christ and the spirit of Euclid."†   (source)
  • Yet there have been and still are geometricians and philosophers, and even some of the most distinguished, who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely the whole of being, was only created in Euclid's geometry; they even dare to dream that two parallel lines, which according to Euclid can never meet on earth, may meet somewhere in infinity.†   (source)
  • "Girls can't do Euclid; can they, sir?"†   (source)
  • "I don't think I am well, father," said Tom; "I wish you'd ask Mr. Stelling not to let me do Euclid; it brings on the toothache, I think."†   (source)
  • She knew she could do Euclid, for she had looked into it again, and she saw what A B C meant; they were the names of the lines.†   (source)
  • Stelling," she said, that same evening when they were in the drawing-room, "couldn't I do Euclid, and all Tom's lessons, if you were to teach me instead of him?"†   (source)
  • He paused a little to consider how he should pray about Euclid—whether he should ask to see what it meant, or whether there was any other mental state which would be more applicable to the case.†   (source)
  • Still, Latin, Euclid, and Logic would surely be a considerable step in masculine wisdom,—in that knowledge which made men contented, and even glad to live.†   (source)
  • "You help me, you silly little thing!" said Tom, in such high spirits at this announcement that he quite enjoyed the idea of confounding Maggie by showing her a page of Euclid.†   (source)
  • The old books, Virgil, Euclid, and Aldrich—that wrinkled fruit of the tree of knowledge—had been all laid by; for Maggie had turned her back on the vain ambition to share the thoughts of the wise.†   (source)
  • See here! what I've got to do," said Tom, drawing Maggie toward him and showing her his theorem, while she pushed her hair behind her ears, and prepared herself to prove her capability of helping him in Euclid.†   (source)
  • The fact that he got through his supines without mistake the next day, encouraged him to persevere in this appendix to his prayers, and neutralized any scepticism that might have arisen from Mr. Stelling's continued demand for Euclid.†   (source)
  • In holding this conviction Mr. Stelling was not biassed, as some tutors have been, by the excessive accuracy or extent of his own scholarship; and as to his views about Euclid, no opinion could have been freer from personal partiality.†   (source)
  • But she found the stock unaccountably shrunk down to the few old ones which had been well thumbed,—the Latin Dictionary and Grammar, a Delectus, a torn Eutropius, the well-worn Virgil, Aldrich's Logic, and the exasperating Euclid.†   (source)
  • "We learned Latin," said Tom, pausing a little between each item, as if he were turning over the books in his school-desk to assist his memory,—"a good deal of Latin; and the last year I did Themes, one week in Latin and one in English; and Greek and Roman history; and Euclid; and I began Algebra, but I left it off again; and we had one day every week for Arithmetic.†   (source)
  • The lord, the lady, and each man, save the frere, Saide, that Jankin spake in this mattere As well as Euclid, or as Ptolemy.†   (source)
  • Here I saw both Socrates and Plato, who before the others stand nearest to him; Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance; Diogenes, Anaxagoras, and Thales, Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Zeno; and I saw the good collector of the qualities, Dioscorides, I mean; and I saw Orpheus, Tully, and Linus, and moral Seneca, Euclid the geometer, and Ptolemy, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Galen, and Averrhoes, who made the great comment.†   (source)
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  • When he came back, he said we were moving to Euclid.   (source)
    euclid = city name
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