Word: octagonal
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...better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show...
...Among the advertised products which the Batten company contributes to the combined concern are Armstrong Linoleum; Colgate products (including Rapid Shave Cream, Ribbon Dental Cream, Fab, Cashmere Bouquet Soap, Coleo Soap, Octagon Soap, Super Suds); Hamilton Watch, Walkover shoes, Edgeworth tobacco, McCallum hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard...
...with memories of his famed battle "thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks of Vallom-brosa," Germany's greatest warrior showed no sign of emotion as he approached the mammoth octagon memorial, surmounted by huge, lofty towers. Said he to the dense mass of people around...
...bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner, Arthur Hind, of Utica, paid $32,500 for it. It is the most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside the octagon, and in the square a schooner, full-rigged, with "British" in the sky above it and "Guiana" in the sea beneath, then the value of Mr. Hind's stamp would be lessened, for collectors would know that there...
...square, an octagon, a ship, on black and magenta...