Word: circularity
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...blot out a large city even if it exploded well outside the city's limits, and its radioactive fallout would have a killing effect a long way downwind. So the ICBM, besides being fairly small, might be fairly inaccurate and still do its job. For it, a C.E.P. (circular error of probability) of five miles would be good enough. And the cataclysmic effect of the great warhead made almost any cost of the missile well worth spending...
These questions were contained in a circular sent to 470 U.S. heart specialists by an organization called the American Research Foundation of Princeton, N.J. Last week the American Medical Association indignantly advised doctors what to do with the questionnaires: throw them in the wastebasket, "to prevent the hysteria that such information could foment...
...instead of plastic, he uses a glass lens. Only 5 mm. in diameter, the circular lens has wings (Schreck calls them "bridges") that give it an overall width of 11½ to 13½ mm., according to the size of the eyeball. The wings fit into the angles where the iris is attached, and hold the lens steady so that it can never fall back into the eyeball...
...figureheads in reverse. The fender line in many new cars, e.g., Cadillac, Plymouth, Chevrolet and Studebaker-Packard's Clipper, was borrowed from the shape of swept-wing aircraft to give autos a jet-propelled look. Cadillac, which has long built taillights into the fenders, now houses them in circular openings that project like twin exhaust pipes above the real exhaust vents. The most complicated rear end appears on the Dodge Custom Royal Lancer, whose chrome-scrolled tail fenders sprout sharklike fins and snorkel-like radio antennae. Ford's Thunderbird had a functional reason for a big change...
Writer-director Clair uses this circular plot to create a series of situations which are not only broadly funny in themselves, but subtly satiric of modern phenomena like assembly lines, time clocks, and politicians. Emphasizing visual humor, A Nous La Liberte deflates these institutions swiftly and economically. And George Auric's musical score, which supplements and sometimes replaces the sparse dialogue, is as delightful as it is appropriate...