Word: circular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, officials of the Archdiocese of Newark summoned 400 nuns from parochial schools, handed out copies of a four-page circular urging the election of Wene. Explained Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty: "The interests of the church would be better served by Wene and other Democratic candidates...
...What we are hearing (if we hear anything at all) is something of far less dramatic import-a sort of airborne Agony Column, with a dash of the Court Circular thrown in: 'Will M'Bongo please return from the yampatch. All is forgiven . . .' 'Is there a witch doctor in the kraal?' 'The chief's brother-in-law, a person of the noblest character, will arrive tomorrow...
Hooks & Cloths. The stuff ranged from fishhooks to architecture, and each New World exhibit has its Asiatic counterpart. In most of Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
Brookhaven is also studying the effect of radiation on plants. A field has been marked off with concentric circles, and various crops have been planted on the circular lines. In the center is a powerful source of radiation (cobalt 60). By the end of summer, Brookhaven's nuclear-agronomists will know more about radiation effects upon growing plants...
...solar system swarms with asteroids (probably fragments of a shattered planet), but the new-found asteroid is extraordinary. Instead of being almost circular, its orbit is a long ellipse. Revolving around the sun in about 360 days, it passes inside the orbit of Mercury and comes within 22 million miles of the sun. Then it recedes to 156 million miles, beyond the orbit of Mars. No other known asteroid visits both places...