Word: rectangularity
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...style of the building is to be strictly classical, rectangular in design, and with four stories and Corinthian pilasters on the facade. The structure is to be built of granite, which was chosen for its extreme durability. Except for University Hall, this will be the only building in which red brick has not been the structural material...
...three days last week the cagiest David Harums of the U. S. milled around a rectangular tanbark enclosure on Manhattan's Squadron A Armory, squinting knowingly as 226 harness horses were trotted or paced, one by one, up & down the narrow track. Walking sticks flashed in the air as bids were raised again & again and the raucous-voiced auctioneer pounded his gavel, announced the buyers. Thus was sold $206,000 worth of U. S. horseflesh at the 43rd annual Old Glory Sale, capping the most successful year in the history of U. S. harness racing...
...population enables it to be called, is about three miles distant from Boston, with which it communicates by horse cars. It presents a village-like appearance, as most of its houses are on circled by large gardens. Harvard College stands in its midst a cluster of very hideous rectangular red brick buildings, with two or three others, less unsightly, of grey stone. Its library is rich in old historical works relating to America, but scarcely any manuscripts' in fact manuscripts are scarcely to be found in any public collections in the United States. The library is suffering from lack...
...like any ordinary ship and steering equipment in the stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel...
Guatemala. In the ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make...