Word: rectangularity
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...system of abbreviations has evolved for the book. Two of the most common are "Harry's Place" for Widener Library and a rectangular figure for the Square...
When any undergraduate enters college, he immediately is assigned a nice new impersonal number, say 262950, which a Key Punch stamps on a master card in the form of small rectangular punches, along with other holes standing for the data on his application card...
...color is not harmonious with the interiors of the dining halls, and the circular shape fights with the predominantly rectangular character of the halls and their furnishings (not to mention Leverett's trapeziform phenomenon...
...Royal Seat. A rectangular chunk of yellow sandstone was missing from the base of a 654-year-old chair in which 27 British monarchs had sat for coronation. Edward I had brought the Stone to London in 1296 to celebrate his 21-day campaign against Scotland, had the coronation chair built around it and crowned himself King of England and Scotland. Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England with lone), where it had formed the base of another chair in which the Kings of Scotland had been crowned...
Heaman would not reveal how much the new trays cost. He said they were custom-built for the University. The rectangular trays cost $2.50 each, he recalled...