Brevet Club
Sir, —It has been stated that the new premises of the Brevet Club near the Memorial Highway are to be adorned by a ‘‘hyperbolic paraboloid” roof. According to my dictionary a paraboloid is “a surface or solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis” and hyperbole ‘‘a rhetorical figure which produces a vivid impression by extravagant and obvious exaggerations.” So now we know, and let’s hope, at any rate, that it keeps out the rain.— Yours, etc., M.T. December 2, 1957.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28450, 3 December 1957, Page 3
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