Word: rectangularity
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...rectangular trays came into use in 1946, succeeding the stainless steel trays used by the Navy here during the war. Before the war students ate from plates...
...trays prove popular, more will be ordered, and the present rectangular trays will gradually be replaced...
...Winston Churchill had won his argument for keeping the old chamber's rectangular shape against those who favored a semicircular pattern. "The party system," said Churchill, "is much favored by an oblong form of chamber. It is easy for an individual to move through those insensible gradations from left to right, but the act of crossing the floor [to change parties] is one which requires serious consideration. I am well-informed on this matter for I have accomplished that difficult process not only once but twice...
Final selection of architect and architectural style will rest, with the center's benefactor, who will also receive a permanent suite in the building. A tentative model shows a "Georgian" building constructed around three sides of a rectangular courtyard...
...With a "grid" or rectangular network of lines superimposed on the conic charts (with closely converging meridians) which are generally used near the pole...