Word: circularity
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...getting increasingly difficult; the newest element was so frail that it decayed almost before anyone recognized that it was around. It was manufactured, explained a lab team (Albert Ghiorso, Torbjorn Sikkeland, Almon E. Larsh and Robert M. Latimer), by coating thin nickel foil with a circular film of artificial californium (element 98) only one-tenth of an inch in diameter. Placed in a container filled with helium gas, this tiny target was bombarded by a beam of boron nuclei from the lab's heavy-ion linear accelerator. Most of the boron bullets missed, but a few scored a bull...
...artist to works of the Goyaesque Felice Giani, who died in Rome in 1823 after an artistic career that included decorating the apartments in the Tuileries for Josephine Bonaparte. In scope, the collection runs from Paolo Uccello's geometric sketch of the 32 surfaces of the mazzocchio, a circular wicker framework used by Florentines as a base for their characteristic cloth headpieces, to an intricately executed sketch by Artist-Author Giorgio Vasari (Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects) of a battle scene to be reproduced in epic proportions in a Florentine palace. In subject, the galaxy...
Cynics who dislike political clubs at Harvard could take a kind of sad pleasure at a recent flurry of the HYDC. Shortly before the club's elections an angry young committee sent around a circular letter protesting "present conditions in the club," and attacking its executives for lack of purpose. Yet, despite this uproar, last night's election meeting, attended by 26 per cent of the club's members, voted in an entire slate of new officers unopposed. One can only conclude that nobody really means what he says in the HYDC...
...time when the nation approved the New Frontier, the HYDC has remained lost in the woods," the circular claimed. A representative of the Committee said the executive committee has released practically no information on its activities during the past half-year...
Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...