Word: tubularity
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...Boston's Filene's department store. Along with the stuff that was just what Hitler ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria...
They found that the various strands in a bundle of nerves, like the wires in a telephone cable, differ in the impulses they transmit; that individual nerve cells are "like tubular electrical condensers"; that the impulses of pain depend on the tiniest nerve strands...
Throughout the Pacific, "Top of the Mark" is a nostalgic name. On a hill above a New Guinea airfield the thatch-roofed Officers Club was named "Top of the Mark." On atolls and in jungles, dusty tents and tubular Quonset huts bore the same name. The original is in San Francisco, an elegant saloon atop the city-topping Mark Hopkins Hotel. When fog winnows against the great windowpanes, the circular bar and soft lounges seem out of this world. For soldiers and sailors, its atmosphere is just right for the gaiety of homecoming, the murmuring of farewell...
...Women's fashions have shown a recurrent cycle with three 35-year phases: tubular, bell and bustle styles. A period of bell-shaped dresses is just beginning...
...helicopter had been simplified and made as comfortable as any small commercial aircraft. Two years ago, Sikorsky's dream-craft was an uncovered, bony collection of tubular steel and whirling props. Orthodox airmen eyed it askance as Sikorsky, with a too-small fedora perched sedately on his bald pate, dropped down into Connecticut sand pits and flew out again, or started to land on the hangar roof, skipped off it and landed on the apron in front...