Word: circulares
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...miracle came: a fleet of silver bombers .that left part of Regensburg in flames. Next day, the Gauleiter was buried -as one of the victims of the raid-and the Fischers breathed again. The bishop generously attended the funeral service-"The mass was at its beginning. He climbed the circular stone steps to the choir, sat down at the organ, and pulled all the stops. Through the immense structure surged a storm of music, a roar as wild as the sound of the Danube." But the people of Regensburg only hung their heads, and "it was evident that...
...Clearly," said he, "we here have an entirely new phenomenon-the circular movement of matter caused by light. It reveals that just as matter rotates light, so light rotates matter. . . . Light can exert a force on a small particle comparable to the force of gravity. It can exert a push or a pull...
That decided, the meeting broke up, peeped at some of the recent Picassos, shook cold hands warmly, descended the painter's circular staircase to the Paris pavements sparkling under a four-inch fall of snow...
...leave, he said, unless or until the returns moved substantially in F.D.R.'s favor. (He left just before 11 p.m.) At 11:15 came the dull thump of a bass drum and the shrill tootle of fifes, and the usual torchlight parade of neighbors milled up the circular driveway...
...reached the eye of the storm off Chesapeake Bay, got safely back to Washington. The flyers (Colonel Lloyd B. Woods, ist Lieut. Frank Record, Major Harry Wexler, a meteorologist) reported that it was not as bad as flying through a summer thunderstorm. Their chief scientific observation: besides its horizontal circular motion, a hurricane has strong upward air currents at its vortex and down currents at its perimeter. The plane was sucked up so steeply at the vortex that it was "just like going up in an elevator...