Word: rectangularity
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...trick was a more intensive method of mining the ore. Last week Kelley was busy spending $20,000,000 to turn the trick. At the head of Butte's "Dublin Gulch," workers hoisted a sign that read "Kelley's Shaft." They started to sink a rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work...
Below him will lie the great mirror, like a pool of still black water dimly sprinkled with stars. Around him will flow the starlight, down to the mirror and up to the "prime focus" of the telescope (see drawing), a rectangular hole in a tablelike structure in front...
...black sedan with Government license plates pulled into the rear parking lot. Out stepped a tall, tanned man with a brown manila envelope under his arm. At the basement reception desk he dutifully presented his rectangular badge, bearing his picture and name: David Lilienthal, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
...green House of Commons (formerly the home of the House of Lords) until the be-wigged speaker of the House, escorted by the traditional footman, and the Sergeant at Arms of the House bearing the huge gold mace enter the chamber. The members quickly take their seats in the rectangular room, the Labour members filling one side of seats, and the opposition parties the other directly opposite them. There are no desks or benches as we are accustomed to, but rather long rows of leather seats of the Sanders Theatre species, on which the members sit. And they...
...Officer shows a treatment of lighting on forehead and hair which distinctly imitates a style of English Portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, who was showing in London at the time; 3) typical Trumbull traits in the Officer are straight-line highlights on buttons, the peculiar method of coloring the rectangular collar of the uniform...