Word: circularity
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...hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
This policy would mean that many books rarely consulted would not have to be returned to the shelves each month, taking more than two days of the senior's time and burdening the library staff with a circular traffic of books going in and out to the same people. Nor would the senior be depriving others of the use of these books, which could be called in when requested just as other books...
...Macy's expansion, which has doubled its stores and sales in ten years, is far from over. Within the next four years ten more stores will be added in such places as Topeka, Kans., Stockton, Calif., Livingston, N.J., and Queens, N.Y., where Macy's is building a circular store with parking ramps along the outside. More significantly, the firm is again moving into downtown areas (for example, in New Haven and Sacramento), a locale that Macy's and other retailers downgraded in the postwar rush to build branches in the suburbs...
...mechanically v. only 1% at the end of World War II. One company, two-year-old Gates Cyclo Inc., has seized a tenth of Denver's egg market with an automated egg "factory" whose caged hens are moved past conveyer-fed food and water troughs in climate-controlled circular buildings: the plant covers only three acres, runs 24 hours a day with a staff of 18. Today's cattle live in sanitary quarters, surrounded by stainless steel and the strains of classical music...
Though it measures only 400 ft. by 800 ft., the campus has no feeling of being crowded. Yet it is a model of compact efficiency. Arrivals are greeted by a circular bicycle park with partially glassed roof. Jacobsen, who also dabbles in interiors, designed everything from the college silverware and china to its door handles. The high table is lighted with rows of soft Jacobsen lamps. Rooms feature a variant of Jacobsen's famed, womblike "egg chair" ("You want to sit back protected...