Word: tubularity
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...crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential for growing bacteria in the preparation of vaccines against typhoid, cholera, bubonic plague and whooping cough, was practically a Japanese monopoly before Pearl Harbor. Japs quietly got much of it from seaweed beds...
...handed, rope steering gear on the newest shell is identical with the ones used up until three years ago, at which time the new type was tried out and found very satisfactory. Priorities and defense demands have not yet claimed the tubular steel out rigging of the boat...
...three subterranean levels, one passes completely out of the period style of the upper rooms into the stacks, of the very latest design, which will accomodate the great majority of the present total of 10,000 books. Illuminated by blue tubular lights, the stacks are made to attract bequests from private collectors since a section of the shelves can be set off and made into a separate room devoted entirely, to one collection...
...conservative furniture-fanciers, the Museum of Modern Art's display looked about as homelike as the waiting room of an up-to-date airport. Tea wagons that looked like bathroom fixtures shared honors with kidney-shaped coffee tables and tubular steel reclining mechanisms. Most of the weird-looking gadgetry was much easier on the spine than...
...series of models and photographs, beginning with furniture's first move toward modern functionalism: the ugly old-fashioned "Morris chair" designed in the 1870s for British art-crafter William Morris, in a mistaken attempt to defy the Machine Age. The historical survey moved onward with examples of tubular steel sitting machines by German Bauhausler Marcel Breuer and French Architect Le Corbusier, to the light, cardboardy modern plywood seats and tables by Finland's Alvar Aalto...