Word: circularity
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...means of circular letters to all Seniors and a series of career conferences on vocational fields, the Office registered almost a thousand undergraduates for its counseling service last year and was instrumental in obtaining for graduating Seniors a large number of positions in virtually all vocational fields...
...When the train was wrecked at Castle Rock, Wash., Tufty suffered broken ribs and passed out (Westbrook Pegler passed the smelling salts). She came out of it with a $3,000 settlement, which she used to fix up her National Press Building cubicle with yellow curtains and a fancy circular desk...
...brown," "seaweed rose," "shrimp pink" and "soft sulphur yellow" helped to create a tizzy of fashionmakers' incoherence. Wrote the N.E.A.'s Rosette Hargrove of one collection (by Carven): "Egyptian inspiration stressing spindled, high-bosomed princess line enhanced by encrusted boleros with contrasting yokes of mummy wrappings and circular embroideries...
...Duff cheerfully, "when it's a pleasure to get out of bed." Pennsylvania's strapping governor was as relaxed as a man who hadn't yet gotten up. In the Capitol at Harrisburg, his long legs were draped over the edge of his massive circular desk. He had just clobbered the G.O.P.'s Old Guard in last week's primaries...
...hole in the head is one of the oldest operations in medical history. Some half a million years ago, Stone Age medicine men were treating their patients by trephining (cutting out a circular piece of the skull). Evidence of their flint-knife gouging can still be seen in prehistoric skulls. Witch doctors in Melanesia and northern Africa still perform similar operations to cure insanity (a hole in the head is a handy exit for demons...