Word: circularity
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...President's view is that the farmers want some form of control, they are being asked by circular letter to say whether they approve the new scheme. If a large proportion of the farmers accept the proposal, it will be put into immediate effect...
...That was too much for Founder Backus. Last week in Minneapolis he launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with a full text of his suits. a quotation on corporate reorganization from The New Republic and another personal appeal. Excerpt: "I understand that Eastern Bankers...
...Yacht Club with his host, now General Cornelius Vanderbilt, and that a debonair feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend Hobart Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago and Santa Barbara. At the gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in passing down one of the circular side staircases the exuberant "Princess Alice" just missed hitting me in the chin when she displayed the dreadful bracelet with his portrait as the War Lord, which Kaiser sent to that vivacious young lady. Miss Roosevelt said to her escort, "See what the Kaiser has sent...
...utilitarians intend to build a train of such rotor-surmounted trucks and run them around a circular track half a mile in diameter. Thus, on windy days, power companies can draw current from the wind, can let their steam plants idle...
...circular window is of interest not only because of its own intrinsic beauty and value, but because of the very question of its provenance. At the time of its presentation to the Museum, the window was said to have come from Canterbury Cathedral and was thought to represent Thomas Becket healing pilgrims at a shrine. It was suggested at that time that the glass was removed from Canterbury Cathedral about 200 years ago, the supposition being that the man in charge of the glass at that time was more interested in the new style of eighteenth century glass than...