Word: rectangularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either sees what he believes or believes what he sees. Let a painter regard a barn. If he sees a red rectangular building, useful for the housing of animals and grain, with a farm wagon in front of it, a maple tree behind it, he is in the latter class?an academician. If, on the other hand, he sees a toppling multicolored cube atilt against an oblong vegetable, with a grisly wheeled mechanism in the foreground, he sees what few believe. Such a one may be a member of the artist colony of Woodstock, Mass., whose pictures were last week...
...Other buildings bound the rectangular campus on all sides. Connecticut Hall occupies one small corner of the enclosure...
...came from the southern and the eastern hemisphere; two came from the middle of the Pacific; two came from the land that borders on the Arctic Ocean; two came from a rectangular island in the Caribbean; two came from the Nation's Capital. But it wasn't all a two-by-two affair. From the state of New York came 91, from Pennsylvania 79, from Ohio 51. There were...
...automatic tennis coaching machine is now being constructed at the Divinity Courts. It is in the form of a rectangular court 45 feet long with dirt foundation and a wooden partition eight feet high...
Whatever happens, British politics will continue to career about in a vicious circle until another, and probably not far-distant, general election restores some semblance of rectangular solidity in the House of Commons. Until that time, whichever party holds the reins of the stately old Government coach, that worthy vehicle will continue to circle an eccentric perimeter, despite the efforts of the Cabinet driver to go straight ahead...