Word: circularity
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...iris is a delicate, loosely meshed mat of tiny blood vessels, nerves, muscles and flimsy connective tissue. A circular system of muscles around the pupil opening acts as a draw string to decrease the size of the pupil in bright light. Radiating from the outer circumference of the iris to the pupil are muscles which draw the pupil open in dull light, like the pull cords of a curtain...
...where plowland, woods & water heat and cool the wind, cause rising convection currents. A skilled pilot may soar for hours from ridge to ridge, now & then picking out an arid patch of ground over which he can climb a rising flow of warm air as he would a circular staircase. A high development of the sport is "cloud-hopping," "hooking on" beneath a cumulus cloud, which always indicates warm air, and riding it for miles. Similarly an advancing thunderstorm always pushes a column of warm air ahead of it. Parachutes are worn on such flights...
Toast after toast was downed in Soviet champagne. The Passfields were started out on a circular luxury tour of Russia, just such a tour as threw Mr. Shaw into panegyrics. Last week the circle was completed, the Lord & Lady returned to Moscow and tart-tongued Beatrice Webb spoke...
Just before this time Mrs. Cash had died saying, "I can live above such imputations." Then Col. Cash's son published the famed circular "Camden Soliloquies," jingling at Shannon: "My daddy was a gin-maker." Shannon then wrote: scurrilous, vulgar. libelous, false and dirty language." Cash replied : . . . I have with great reluctance come to the settled conclusion that you are the unmitigated scoundrel you have been represented...
...stopped giving its sales figures. That year it produced 218$ new newspaper and magazine presses and 62 used ones, 425 small presses. Pride of the Hoe line is the Super-Production Press (1928) which can turn out 56,000 48-pagers hourly. Incidental to its main business, Hoe makes circular saws and during the War made guns for the Navy...