Word: rectangularity
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...stood in a window recess. We had a splendid view of the Thames, and one of us-I think it was Anthony Hope-expressed regret that so glorious a landscape and such graceful arches as characterized the stone bridges should be marred by a rectangular iron railway structure. H. G. Wells interrupted...
...change in the topic meant no change in the quality of his discourse. The Charing Cross bridge was ugly, materialistic, rectangular. To people like Bigelow anything curved is more beautiful than anything rectangular...
Before actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another...
...precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...
Then came Columbia Trust, with cuts of the largest U. S. university's "safe and sane rectangular safety deposit boxes. . . . New boxes will be put up yearly as the number of . students grows." Juxtaposed with the facade of the Columbia Library, was a "detail of a kindred savings bank," markedly similar...