Word: octagonally
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...petals about a flower, but each cluster is removed from the main part of the building. To get the shape of the classrooms, Perkins and Will experimented with full-scale diagrams on a gym floor. The circle and square, they decided, were too imprisoning; the pentagon was drab, the octagon confusing. The architects' final decision: the hexagon...
...insignia will depict the sword of valor against a lamp of knowledge. The sword and lamp are in dark blue on a yellow, octagon-shape patch...
...Bates was given the option of forming his own agency to handle part of the account or of staying on at B. & B. without it. He chose the former. His new agency will handle Palmolive's two shaving creams, Colgate's Dental Cream, Kick (soap chips) and Octagon products (soap). It will also have Bates's old reliable, Continental. The two will give the agency billing of some $3,000,000 a year...
...whitemx metal Westclox alarm clock, octagon shaped...
...William Colgate sold his first cake of soap in his little Manhattan shop 128 years ago. For three generations the Colgates ruled Colgate, their hegemony ending with the Palmolive-Peet merger in 1928. As late as 1931 the company was selling $90,000,000 worth of Palmolive, Cashmere Bouquet, Octagon soaps, tooth paste, shaving cream and whatnot. But profits dropped from $8,900,000 to a slight deficit in 1932. That was the signal for the return of the Colgates. S. (for Samuel; Bayard Colgate, 36, was elected president, and a management representing stock control stepped in. A quiet, clear...