Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work without any disturbance of their instruments. In the basement, and in the first story, stone tables, each supported by its own column of masonry, and without contact with the floors, furnish firm support for the instruments. In the centre of the western wing there is a large rectangular tower, standing on an independent foundation, and isolated from the surrounding rooms; this tower is designed for investigations demanding extraordinary stability or great height. To avoid the influence of magnetism as much as possible, all pipes and nails in the western wing are made of brass...
Lost: - A rectangular cuff button with design surface. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving at 14 Hollis Hall...
...paper bag, in which the slips are to be filed, and arrange these bags in alphabetical order on the shelves of one of the alcoves in the library. Perhaps on many topics under which fewer slips are likely to accumulate, a more convenient receptacle would be the large stiff rectangular envelope, in which lawyers are used to file documents...
...gone away from Cambridge for the last time, will look back to the time when he boarded at Memorial with no small degree of pleasure. Even now as we return after a vacation, we feel a certain pleasure in sitting once more among the noisy groups at the plain rectangular tables in the dining hall. It requires only a few months for a student to get used to the hurry-of his fellow students, not of the waiters, and the noise and clatter. If later he happens to take a meal at a private table, he notices the quiet...