Word: rectangularity
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...greater comfort and beauty. To eliminate the "streetcar" look, he broke the interior up into three cabins, with paneled walls giving a living-room effect, put in a midplane lounge with fabric-covered sofas, and chairs with disappearing arms and built-in headrests. The plane's large, rectangular windows give 85% more visibility than most planes. The three cabins, if desired, can be used for three separate types of service, luxury, tourist and coach...
Like the Conference Building, it is long and low. But where the Conference Building is rectangular, the Assem bly is sweepingly curved and capped with a wide dome. One end is clear plate glass, the other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals...
...mutter, as they yank your car off to their garage, looking nervously over their shoulders for the snout of the all-devouring plow looming up behind a drift. They might as well be looking for a Sno-Go. The tow trucks come and go, but still squatting in the rectangular grimy mounds where the cars have been is the snow, a little sullied but determined to stick out the winter...
Hasui Kawase's temple yard has something of Old Master Hiroshige's subtle patterning and cool sweetness. But its firmly rectangular composition and deep perspective have Italian
...weight of water is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot. What is the weight of the water that fills a rectangular container 6 inches by 6 inches by 1 foot? (a) 32.2 pounds, (b) 15.6 pounds, (c) 10.4 pounds, (d) 12.48 pounds, (e) none of these. (For answers see footnote...