Word: circularity
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...Confederate Veteran grew out of a series of circular letters in 1890 soliciting funds for a Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond. The founder was Sumner A. Cunningham, a Tennessee publisher who had lately sold his Chattanooga Times for $300 to an up-&-coming young newspaperman named Adolph Ochs. Cunningham's pamphlets about the memorial fund aroused so much interest among the Grays that he started the monthly magazine to retain that interest. Main features were veterans' reminiscences, historical sketches "to correct erroneous impressions...
...circular track 25 centimeters in diameter a housefly and an ant ran a race. The stride of the ant was 5/10 millimeters in length; three of his strides equaled one of the housefly's. In two minutes the ant made 2,000 strides; the housefly 500. Given: 1) the race was for 300 meters; 2) after eight hours the housefly began to cheat by flying to the point on the race track diametrically opposite to him, in the space of one second every alternate round, from that minute on; 3) at the same instant the ant sprained...
...children or perhaps her husband, lost somewhere in the clockworks. Dr. Kraatz said she was living on stored-up body tissue. On the 19th day death seemed about to end the struggle. But on the 20th Dr. Kraatz's microscope detected on the clock's face two circular clusters, apparently eggs. Hatched into spider-food, these would provide strength for indefinite spinning. Not, however, if Agent G. W. Dilley of Akron's Humane Society could prevent it. He announced he would let Dr. Kraatz observe the spider one more week, then ask that it be freed...
Unlike George Herbert Palmer who, locked in Appleton Chapel, attracted the attention of a yard cop from a high up circular window, the Vagabond settled down to enjoy himself. The arrangement of some of the books took his fancy. The Harvard University Publications, he found, were placed, appropriately enough, next to books on Games and Sports; while War Songs next to Individual and Individualistic Composers made him suspect that the world of music was not without its skirmishes. He discovered Manchuria defended only by Thibet, between China and Japan...
WOLFE (Humbert) Circular Saws. Mint...