Word: circularity
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...stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful way of sewing the cut ends of an artery together: put draw strings through each end of the artery: pull until the circular edges acquire a triangular shape; bend the flaps outward; put the two triangles together; hem the fringe of flaps together. The inside of the artery is now smooth; hence no blood clot will form there...
...engagement, ordered the Court into a fortnight's mourning. Flustered Court officials sought to exculpate themselves by saying that, although Queen Astrid's death came off the news ticker at 11:58 a. m., they did not consider it as yet official when the Court Circular announcing Gloucester's engagement was read off the British radio at dinner time and released for next morning's papers. They did not doubt that the Queen of the Belgians had been killed. It was merely that, hours afterward, this had not yet been reported by the appropriate department...
After Governor Lehman and other dignitaries finished reading speeches and telegrams at last week's dedication ceremonies, he led a large party into the Hall of Springs, a big, pillared and arcaded brick & limestone building. It contains three circular yellow marble fountains, from which well Geyser, Hathorn and Coesa waters. Patients and visitors fill glasses at the fountains, stroll through the arcades sipping and gossiping until the waters work. An orchestra plays in a balcony...
...Chant looked over the ground near Toronto, found a suitable site on a ridge nine miles from the city. Her son laid a cornerstone. A graceful administration building went up, with three housings for small telescopes on the roof. Fifty yards away a great telescope was installed in a circular building topped by a gleaming copper-clad dome...
...appropriate legends like Harvard University, Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, or the name of a Harvard club, to indicate such special associations. From the artistic point of view, freedom of decorative treatment in combination with the Arms is very much to be preferred to the rigid limitations of the circular Seal...