Word: circularity
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...interested in getting one of these valuable shapes, for which I will swap a priceless circular rectangle from my knothole collection...
...grand that the Dining Halls Department has redesigned the circular trays--raising the partitions. Now there is no chance of mashed potatoes, succotash, and welch rarebit slopping out of their appointed compartment into an unappetizing mess. And the new trays solve the problem of sauces and gravies dripping over the sides onto the eater's trousers...
...poetry department, ditties about President Conant and a television-oriented housewife by Clement Despard and J. H. Updyke, are both witty and lively. Charles Osborne's introductory lament over the nothingness to say about freshmen is a cleverly expressed bit of circular thought, while David Graham's soliloquy on "burgers" suffers only from overextension...
...fills it will never be a handy tourist attraction like Arizona's meteorite crater near Canyon Diablo. It is close to Hudson Strait, on a granite plain so desolate that even arctic animals prefer to live somewhere else. Discovered by Prospector Fred W. Chubb (who noticed its telltale circular shape in an air photo), it was briefly explored by Geologist Meen in the summer of 1950 (TIME, Aug. 14, 1950) with inconclusive results. He decided that it had not been caused by a volcanic explosion or glacial action; but there was no positive proof that it had been caused...
...Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujihara observed that two hurricanes never collide, but when they come close enough they attract one another and swerve off their former courses. This is because the high-pressure area between them is exhausted by the sucking effect of the two circular storms. So the barometric pressure drops while the pressure outside the storm-pair remains high. This unbalanced condition pushes the two storms closer. At the same time, their violence decreases because of the lack of enough air pressure to keep them spinning as fast as before...