Word: circularity
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...Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere unwelcome, Trebitsch-Lincoln looked eastward upon Buddhism, saw that it was good. He entered a monastery near Peiping, took the name Chao Kung, had his hair clipped and the twelve circular brands of the Buddhist wheel of life burned into his bullet pate. Two years ago he returned to Germany to gain converts. Jailed in Cologne for an old debt he had forgotten, he got out by swearing a pauper's oath, returned to China followed by such neophyte Buddhists...
...centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant...
...This circular also states that these signs will occur from seven days after the first exposure to 16 days after the last exposure, and that it is possible to contract the disease more than once...
...month (including telephone, radio, gas & light). He keeps one maid. To those who knew his work, his design for the Palace of the Soviets came as no surprise, for he learned most of his profession in Rome, admires classical architecture and Michelangelo, has already built near Rome a circular, colonnaded Jewish cemetery. In Moscow, his best work is the First House of the Soviets (apartments...
...completely taken in by the mystical doctrines preached to him constantly (his wife says) by two of Diaghilev's henchmen.* Nijinsky's insanity showed itself when he took his family to Switzerland to rest in 1918. He became increasingly moody and irresponsible, took to drawing strange circular designs spotted with eyes, fanciful butterflies with faces like his own, spiders which suggested Diaghilev. He was found one day walking the streets with a great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek God. His last dance was for a society function. He made a cross on the floor...