Word: circularity
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...Thanks" forwarded by Reader Maxwell were printed in a missionary circular. Excerpts follow...
...this point, Joe wonders whether to explore the circular staircase ahead which seems to hang in mid-air, or to investigate the Exhibition Room on his left, or the Reading Room on his right. Choosing the former course, he encounters a souvenir stand where sight-seers might buy some postcards. Nearby is a warm-up kitchen for occasional tea parties...
Soon a wrecking crew will start tearing down the big grey, circular building that has stood on the Battery for 134 years. Its solid, eight-foot walls will be leveled to make way for the wide approaches to Manhattan's new vehicular tunnel under the East River to Brooklyn...
...foreigners not exempted, the Treasury's order meant a complicated headache. The 30-page "Public Circular No. 4" and its rainbow-colored forms made the income tax's Form 1040A look as simple as a blank check. Despite high penalties for not filing -$10,000 fine or ten years in jail-there was no indication of how the Government hoped to ferret out non-English-reading refugees, warehousemen, etc. who fail to file...
Each island, each cluster, each pool, each fortress would be circular-so that it could not be attacked from "the rear"-and autonomous-capable of holding out after others were knocked out. The system was calculated to canalize enemy attack into defiles covered by cross fire from several islands at once, and themselves generously cluttered with tank traps, mine fields, barbed-wire entanglements, other obstacles...