Word: circular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circular sent out by Phillips Brooks House to everyone in the Law School on Tuesday, December 6, 800 men have replied that they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the present eating facilities...
...went on at an abandoned farmhouse outside Fayetteville, N. C. last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor...
...small motor truck containing a radio transmitter set off for an unannounced point an hour's drive away. Hour or so later an American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport...
...clear spectrum it is necessary to work with a very narrow band of light; but, because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...
...Professor Pavlov's dogs was taught that a circular light flashed on a screen meant food, that an elliptical light meant none. Then the ellipse was gradually rounded out until it was nearly circular, but no food. This psychological double-cross sent the dog into a nervous state called traumatic neurosis, from which he had to be rescued by rest and daily rectal instillations of bromides. An obedient motorist is conditioned to stop at a red light, to proceed at a green. But Dr. Fabing's research marked the green as a treacherous come-on, since often just...