Word: circular
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When introduced recently to students in a cafeteria at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the ring-shaped contraption immediately drew curious onlookers. "It's clearly a fan," said engineering student Sergei Bernstein, 18, placing his palm before the draft of cool air flowing from the circular frame. "But it looks completely different, very modern," said his friend John Berman...
...graceful ring set atop a cylindrical base. In essence, the device works like a vacuum cleaner in reverse. The motor in the base of the fan sucks in air and pushes it up into the ring. The air rushes out of tiny, millimeter-long slots that run along the circular frame and flows down a gently sloping ramp. As the air emerges from the ramp, it creates a circular low-pressure region that pulls in the air from behind - creating a fairly uniform flow of air through the ring. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
...setting was simple, consisting of an outdoor porch with two circular banisters on each side of the stage. However, these banisters seemed to hinder the performance more than they helped. Often times during a dialogue, one of the characters would lean on a banister and look at the audience as they spoke instead of at the character with whom they were talking. Often this device was distracting, and it seemed like the banister acted as a crutch for the actors to not have to look at each other at meaningful points in the dialogue, taking away from what could have...
This year’s sardonic lit comp directors Nathaniel H. Stein '10 and John B. Owen '10 led the meeting in a room in the part of the castle near Plympton Street. The room, a circular creation, featured book-lined walls—everything from a collection of bound Time magazines to a set of now-dead alumnus John Updike’s Rabbit, Run series. On top of the bookcases stood a collection of knick-knacks that included an empty bottle of Maker’s Mark—a FlyBy favorite—a bottle of peroxide...
...aged as well as its OTC counterparts, due to the understandable but largely overblown criticism that the album lacks stylistic variety and lapses too easily into a monotone. Though “Signal Morning” retains many of that album’s lyrical themes, (circular time, nature, nostalgia, and otherworldly transcendence) it’s a closer sonic companion to Hart’s work on “Black Foliage.” This should come as no surprise, since all former OTC members, including Bill Doss, play on “Signal Morning...