Word: circular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to prove his point by breeding a strain of highly emotional rats, another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently...
...racquets court costs only $50,000, has no royal recesses, is a 60-by-30-ft., four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall...
...hrer's astounding new retreat has been printed, but by last week many authentic details of the Adlerhorst (Eagle's Nest) had seeped through to the U. S. Perched on the pinnacle of Kehlstein Mountain, the house itself is comparatively small, consists mainly of one large circular room lined, except for a spot near the fireplace, with large windows. There are also a guard room, an electrically operated kitchen, and a balcony lookout. It is 6,000 feet above sea level, commands superb views of Bavaria and old Austria by night and day. The winds howl around...
...grounds of the Carnegie Institution of Washington stands a circular, domed building which looks like a modest astronomical observatory. It houses no telescope but a powerful atom-smasher, one of the two biggest in the world. The other is being readied at East Pittsburgh by Westinghouse Electric. Last week, after years of planning and construction, the Carnegie monster started its first test runs, hurling streams of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms) into a quartz plate at 5,000,000 volts...
...Whatever it is," Walsh said, "the critics of the act are bargaining for amendments making 'coercion' by unions as well as employers, illegal. The term 'coercion' can be stretched to include all effective strikes, picketing, circular distributing even enthusiastic hymn singing in church has been called coercive by courts...