Word: circulares
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...Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown in by a former R.C.A.F. flying instructor named Ross C. ("Bill") Shepherd, who offered to fly amputation cases to the party on a free shuttle service...
...Time trained in accordance with War Department circular 187 which states that after any similarity it may have had to its past, present or future is rendered purely coincidental...
...poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts...
Last week the Church decided that things had gone far enough. The Most Reverend Joseph Aldee Desmarais, Bishop of Amos (Quebec) diocese, issued a bluntly worded circular. Appropriately, it was distributed on the Day of the Feast of St. Francis...