Word: circularity
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...horns taken by the players to Laarne are the direct descendants of the circular trompe de chasse developed in France toward the middle of the 17th century. The present-day horn is a 4.54 meter-long conical brass tube wound three times around and flaring from the mouthpiece to a fat bell. Pitched to the key of C, the horn sounds a plaintive, husky call which on good days may ride the wind for a mile or more...
...windows in Jenkins' car, a borrowed two-door Pontiac sedan, were rolled up as he pounded around the circular ten-mile track, and the temperature inside the car rose to a stifling 120°. Jenkins gave no sign of needing a relief driver, but after 9½ hours, his nervous wife insisted that he turn the wheel over to their 36-year-old son Marvin. Ab jauntily downed two glasses of milk, was soon back at the wheel, in all drove for 16 of the 24 hours. Despite a broken patch of track which caused the car to swerve...
With respect to William Harvey's June 18 "cutlet" for cheating on examinations (formulae on fingernails and a circular note under his wristwatch crystal): for knowing so precisely what was to be asked on the examination without benefit of an espionage system, Mr. Harvey deserved at least a passing grade. Anything he could write on so small a space might just as well have been memorized. Most of the myths students cherish about cheating are about as reliable. Ever hear about the boy with the hearing aid tuned in to a portable tape recorder...
When I was a student I had two dreads: math and science. For science I wrote the formulae on my fingernails; for mathematics I wrote them on a circular piece of paper, slipped under the crystal of my wristwatch. Result: I never flunked. Note to students: I have not patented these cutlets...
...Palo Alto, Calif., police arrested Herman Dale Reid, 31, suspected of having a hand in nine embezzlement cases, as he stood staring admiringly at his own "Wanted" circular in the downtown post office...