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Word: rectangularity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan is the difference in the space between Mount Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WOODMAN, SPARE--" | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

They, peasants and factory workers, have entered the vast, rectangular Imperial Hall of Columns-white columns of pearly marble, twinkling in the radiance of a myriad crystal chandeliers. Here the Romanovs and some of their Windsor and Hohenzollern kinsfolk moved to stately music amid the white fire of diamonds. But now the bench of the Soviet Supreme Court dominates, draped with a coarse cloth, blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

After less than five minutes the demonstration was weakening when, to the rescue, in struggled tall young William H. Vanderbilt of Rhode Island with a thin, rectangular object some eight feet long and five feet wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Nomination | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Rectangular in shape, the building will have a front 88 feet long on Mount Auburn Street and 38 feet long on Holyoke Street. Building on this site will necessitate tearing down the old Dunster House Book Shop and the white frame building which had been the home of the Advocate and the Harvard Dramatic Club. These buildings are two of the oldest edifices in Cambridge. Both buildings contain many unique features, each as old hand made doors and board floors containing planks 18 inches wide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW MANTER HALL TO RISE SOON | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

...object in socker* to kick a round inflated pigskin into a rectangular net, known as goal. But human, feet often err; smite opponents in the shins, groins, stomachs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Socker | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

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