Word: circularity
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...Junior who was accused of making a disturbance in Chapel. Consequently, the Juniors in another defiant meeting overwhelmingly voted to wear Black crepe on their arms for the next three weeks to display their open hostility to the administration's injustice. They also resolved to publish a circular that would give a fair account of the events...
Several days later two more Freshmen were suspended. This occurred the day that the Junior Class Circular was published. In order to announce their publication a special meeting was held. "An effigy of President Quincy was hung with a rope about his neck from the Rebellion tree--a bonfire built near it--a loud shouting raised--and after exhibited for some time in this way, it was set on fire and burnt . . . this was done by the Junior Class and by a vote of the Class...
...increasing swell of publications the administration and the students battled with words. The administration under the name of President Quincy issued a defensive circular accounting the events as they saw them. The next day the Senior Class began drafting its statement as a reply to President Quincy's circular. But the Board of Overseers also entered the engagement by appointing a committee to look into the affair. The report of this committee under the chairmanship of former President John Quincy Adams, a relative of Josiah Quincy, was an indictment of the Senior Class circular...
...Circular Orbits. One characteristic of the unseen Barnard planet disturbed Van de Kamp: its orbit seemed too elliptical in comparison with the nearly circular orbits of most solar-system planets. Patiently continuing his monitoring of the star, he exposed more photographic plates, refined his data, and early this year came to the conclusion that Barnard's wobbles are caused not by a single planet in an unusual orbit but by two planets in nearly circular orbits...
...best work produced by a whole country full of screaming leftists in France last Mai. There is the "on strike abstract" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #4), which is a print that was originally a woodcut and was adapted to silk-screen for reproduction. Its use of a circular figure makes it the most suggestive of the strike workshop's designs...