Word: circularity
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...does succeed in showing pictures in a more dynamic way than they have been previously exhibited: colors explode from the several tiers, shapes and patterns echo to a frightening crescendo, and above it all hammers the spiral and the circular dome...
...their dedicated isolation, Shaker communities hit on a host of new forms and techniques that have become commonplace. Before the Civil War, Shakers invented a flat broom, a wheel-driven washing machine, a circular saw, a tilt-back chair (on ball-and-sockets) and, a century before its use in medicine, electric shock therapy, using a primitive static-electricity generator...
...Administration suggested two plans which would involve slight reduction of labor. First, they proposed the "pre-filled tray." Each student would receive a circular platter already loaded with food. There would be no need for a serving line--and thus the number of servers could go down. The second idea involved buffet-style dining. Servers would dole out meat, soup, and possibly dessert to people in the line; for all other items on the menu-each person could serve his own portion...
...Theatre itself is circular; and its pioneering design includes a titled, inflated, lens-shaped nylon roof 145 feet in diameter. With a maximum seating capacity of about 1800, the Theatre has a stage flexible enough to accommodate either proscenium or three-quarters-arena productions...
...hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece's pledged word...