Word: tortuousness
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...brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains. The tortuous hills and valleys of the cerebral hemispheres were much alike; nothing could be inferred from them about the tastes and pursuits of the living minds. These are matters of the chemical relationships in the living tissue; death blots them out; the brains of dead men look very much alike, although...
Capt. Hermann Koehl is a veteran pilot of the War, shot down twice by the French, taken prisoner the second time only to escape from a prison camp and make a tortuous way back to Germany. He is 40, married but childless, is old for a pilot. "Blind flying," night flying so essential to a transatlantic pilot, is his specialty...
...only have the buildings been subjected to the processes of reconstruction but the innards of the Yard itself have been searched by all the wracking devices known to heating agencies. Frequent pits disclose the path of the tortuous tunnel which carries heating conduits to new and old buildings...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
...building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage to creep to their destinations. And there are times when they cease motion entirely leaving the inhabitants of these imposing chateaus the privilege either of walking up the dingy, tortuous flights or of remaining below stairs. Therefore such lamentations as those from Middlebury are superfluous--for it is written that every two stories of grandiloquent brick mean two of painful laboring, upward and onward; the flamboyant luxury of "student hotels" usually assume the docile modesty of college owned dormitories...