Word: circularity
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...will describe to her the merits of an English shooting stick. They will talk up the all-purpose economy of a hand-carved duck decoy which, used for hunting in season, doubles as a door stop in winter, spring, and summer. On their shelves also is a cellophane-wrapped circular bread board, strapped to which are a bottle of sherry decorated with a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese, and a loaf of crusty bread...
...shooting stick might be restful for long waits outside the H. A. A. ticket office. The hand-carved duck could be sailed in a bathtub. The sherry, grapes, cheese, and bread may be, as the circular puts it, "just the gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate...
Shanghai's Shun Pao distributed an unusual circular "To Our Dear Readers." It said: "Since all readers of our newspaper are excellent, refined citizens, we are willing to recommend our leader Mr. Pan Kung-chan. . . . Our slogan is: Every reader of Shun Pao in Shanghai will please vote for the editor of Shun Pao, Mr. Pan Kung-chan...
...began building a radically new research building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, who also designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...
Lately, however, the evictions have been carried out with a good deal of politeness. Twenty thousand mine workers were due to arrive in the town of Marienberg; housing was needed. To Marienbergers tapped for eviction, the bürgermeister distributed a circular: "The City of Marienberg will have to accommodate a large number of miners, some of whom will bring their families along. In order to arrange this . . . all persons who are unable to do mining work will be transferred to Olbernhau...