Word: circularity
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...propaganda blows by the Axis last week rang through Latin America: Circular Letter. Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in a letter sent to all Latin American governments, told how Spain had joined Adolf Hitler's crusade against Communism: 90,000 Spaniards had enlisted in the German crusade, which was continuing to recruit "youths who will go forth to defend Occidental Christian civilization...
...similar card, sent to Lieut. Alfred T. Hearne at Fort McIntosh, Tex. Had Mr. Secretary any comment on these exhibits? Yes, he had jotted down something. From a typewritten flimsy he read: ". . . It is necessary to keep this force in existence . . . peril still exists. ... At this moment, a circular is sent out which will have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With this terrible word in their beaks, the correspondents broke from the room...
...weeks ago President Peñaranda's Cabinet suddenly sent him a circular telegram warning of unspecified Nazi plottings, resigned in a body to give him a free hand in dealing with them. This week it looked as though he had made good use of his opportunity. Whether the Nazi plot was led by Belmonte or others, the President had moved fast and drastically. His score to date: four newspapers shuttered, German Minister Ernst Wendler given his walking papers, an unspecified number of Bolivians arrested, including Victor Paz Estenssoro, who until five weeks ago was Finance Minister...
...little theater on the green slopes of the Hudson Valley, live about 20 patients of all ages, with all forms of mental illness. The patients work around the estate, gardening, running the theater. The theater, made of pungent, unpainted wood, with seats for some 80 people, has a circular stage on three levels, with a balcony overhead for patients with delusions of grandeur. There are no curtains or scenery, only two pillars in the background, a bare table and chairs. Floodlights of three different intensities play on the stage, corresponding to the patient's mood: soft white...
...Columbia University. First he found two big flaws in it: 1) only meteorites a mile across could make some of these craters, whereas none larger than 20 feet across are known to have reached the earth; 2) though small exploding meteorites can make large craters, their holes are always circular, never oval, regardless of angle of impact, whereas most of the Carolina craters are oval...