Word: rectangularity
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...Rice, who is now in charge of the new Geography Building on Divinity Avenue, has been making trips for 30 years into a rectangular region larger than the great Lakes district, around the northern tributaries of the Amazon. In the now film, his voice accompanies it with a detailed explanation of what is occuring, making the movie complete in itself, and making it possible to show it anywhere...
Last week Architect Gilbert showed the nation what he thought the Court's new home should look like: a classic temple of white stone 385 ft. deep, on each side of which abut lower rectangular wings. The temple-front is roofed to a slight peak above massive Corinthian columns, this portal and the wings to present a façade 304 ft. wide...
...describing this meteorite, Luyten reports, "The first impression that one gets of the meteor, seeing it from a distance, is not too overwhelming, but this changes when one gets close to it. It is an enormous block of metal, almost rectangular in shape, of dimensions nine by ten feet, and a thickness varying from two and a half to almost four feet. When first found only a small part protruded above the limestone; since then a pit has been dug all around it which shows the full extent of the meteor on all sides. On the northeastern side...
...last week, men enthusiastically lugged into the Choptank River a one-ton steel model of the steel islands (seadromes) which Edward R. Armstrong of Holly Oak, Del., proposes to anchor 375 miles apart across the Atlantic. The model, 1/32 the size of intended seadromes, consists essentially of a rectangular platform. To its underside are attached hollow steel columns, each ending in a circular disk. Air in the cylinders was sufficient to keep the device floating on the Choptank and the platform several feet above the water. Speedboats dashed around the model. Their waves did not touch the platform...
...Toronto, Ont., tens of thousands of sportsfolk and natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha...