Word: rectilinear
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...quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity...
...Receding foreheads, massive jaws, prognathous chins, unsymmetrical skulls, long ears, rectilinear noses, thick hair and thin beards-by such physical marks Lombroso would have identified born criminals...
...eight-inch photographic telescope for the observatory is in process of construction. It is called a doublet, or rectilinear instrument, from the fact that it is to contain two object glasses, by which the linear distortions caused by ordinary lenses are nearly eradicated. The new telescope differs from the present Draper instrument in that it will take successive stellar photographs automatically, changing and exposing the plates according to the particular programme decided upon. The charts produced will be about eight inches square...
...telescope is the largest of its kind in the world. Its peculiar feature is the possession of two independent objectives, a "doublet," forming a rectilinear combination, which does away with distortion, and thus makes possible accurate charting of a large portion of the heavens...
...lens used is a Voigtlander rectilinear lens, corrected and adapted to the purpose in view. The aperture of the instrument is eight inches and a field of ten degrees square in the heavens can be photographed at one exposure...