Word: rectangularity
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...such model, made by students at Syracuse University, showed an Army reception center as it would normally appear from a height of 5,000 ft., with rectangular lines and shadows, and a white circular roadway clearly identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm...
...writes a little story on several which he may select. Under the direction of Miss Savage, Dr. Wells' assistant, the usual aptitude tests are made. Either under Miss Savage's eye, or Dr. Wells' supervision, the student takes specially-cut pieces of wood, and forms them into a rectangular solid. These are the so-called "Harvard Test Blocks" which test a person's manipulative insight...
These drivers will receive a rectangular buff card allowing them unit stamps for 21 gallons of gas between now and June 30, or about three gallons a week. Owers may get their whole supply at one time or from...
...Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator." The Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head...
Tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of the Yard stands the University's traditional maid-of-all-work, Holden Chapel. This small, rectangular structure of pure Georgian architecture has been the scene, during its 200-odd years of existence, of the birth of the Medical School, the near-death of Harvard's greatest President, and midnight raids by students seeking decorations for their rooms among the specimens in the anatomical museum...