Word: tubularity
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LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN, which all railroads are talking about, will be ordered by the Pennsylvania. Costing about $1,000,000, it will be a Talgo-type express (TIME, April 18, 1949) made up of low-slung, tubular cars holding 600 passengers...
...tubular device, famed for its sensitivity and instantaneous response to fleeting sounds...
...have been bobbing down the chutes for more than 50 years. First built by Fritz's father, Carl, a peppery little (110 Ib.) character who took his last bobsled ride ten years ago at the age of 68, the sleds are no more than a flexible framework of tubular steel mounted on two sets of strong steel runners. Just about the only way they differ is in the steering apparatus. Most drivers prefer a wheel. Ham-handed Fritz Feierabend uses short ropes hooked directly to the steering runners. "With ropes I can feel the ice," he explains...
...Britain's Discovery, Biologist N. B. Marshall tells how fish make their eyes useful in the dark ocean depths. Some have enormous, supersensitive eyes to catch the faintest glimmers from the luminous organs of their prey or enemies. Others have tubular eyes like telescopes or light-projecting organs like searchlights with lenses...
...strangest lady on Fifth Avenue. Her face looked a little like a reduced version of Elsa Lanchester's, her flower-covered, tubular body was rooted in the ground, and for a hat she wore a fragment of a vase full of spreading greenery. She looked like Maud who had finally come into the garden and been left there too long. The lady was all clay, and the creation of Denmark's Bjorn Wiinblad (rhymes with keen blot), one of the brightest ceramists in the business...