Crossword-Solution: DAC 3 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The laughing Jackass (Dacelo cervina, GOULD) of this part of the country, is of a different species from that of the eastern coast, is of a smaller size, and speaks a different language; but the noise is by no means so ridiculous as that of Dac.

Cephren, situate at the angle of the 20, 21, 29 triangle FAB, and strung, as it were, on the hypotenuse of the 3, 4, 5 triangle DAC, is likely to be connected with _both_ primaries in his slopes.

Then as AP = 15 inches, CA = 14, AD 3 inches, DC 12 inches, BA 4 inches, BC 11 inches; and reducing the formulæ to figures, we get: 14^2 + 3^2 - 12^2 196 + 16 - 144 ----------------- = -------------- = 0·7262 cosine, 2 × (14 × 3) 84 and by referring to a table of sines, we find that cosine 0·7262 = angle 43° 26´, therefore angle DAC = 43½°, about.

The story invariably opens with the words, “A fost ce a fost; dacà n’ar fi fost nici nu s’ar povesti,” which, corresponding to our “once upon a time,” may be thus translated: “It was what once took place, and if it had never been, it would not now be related;” and the concluding phrase is often this one, “And if they have not died, they are all yet alive.” It is not every one who can relate a story correctly according to the Roumanian’s mode of thinking.