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...next time the gravy on your circular tray wanders into your lettuce, you can blame the modern design of the new Graduate Center north of the Yard. The architects of the center helped to perfect the new trays as the finishing touch for the halls which opened last September...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Students Critical of Circular Trays | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

...hair neatly brushed, eating the breakfast he had cooked for himself. Then she noticed a trickle of blood running down each side of his face; each trickle came from a hole in his head. Horrified, she called a doctor, who found that the major had a half-inch, circular hole with blackened edges in his right temple, and a star-shaped hole higher up in the left temple. During the night he had shot himself with his .38-cal. revolver. But instead of taking his life, he had accidentally performed a crude kind of bilateral frontal lobotomy,* a tricky piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gunshot Surgery | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...circular letter to all bishops he wrote: "The Catholic religion ... is superpolitical, indivisible by national boundaries or political differences . . . Any so-called Independent Catholic Church . . . is simply a schismatic church and not the true and one Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics in China | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Super Gimmicks | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...large magnetic field--95 inches--to hold the particles in circular paths. The magnet in Harvard's cycltron has power enough to yank hammers out of people's hands...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Nuclear Laboratory Boasts 100-Ton Doors Water System, 125,000 Volt Cyclotron | 6/2/1951 | See Source »

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