Word: circular
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
...fact that Chairman Simeon D. Fess had promised support for all Republican candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout the state. Senator Nye had previously pried out the facts in the printing plant of Charles I. Stengle, onetime Brooklyn Congressman, now editor of the National Farm News. Director Lucas, unrepentant, defended his action by declaring that Senator Norris...
Half a hundred newsmen jostled their way expectantly into President Hoover' circular office at noon one day last week. Word had spread that the President was thoroughly displeased at Republican mismanagement of his relief programs (for Drought and Depression) in the Senate, that for the third time he would have sharp-stinging things to say.?A pleasant hearth fire crackled in the hushed room as the President lifted a paper from his desk, began to read aloud. His face grew red with feeling. His voice was harsh and annoyed. Excerpts...
...filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just as well eat apple sauce...
...same circular Mr. Hammond has announced two musical events for the middle of December. On Monday, December 15, at 8 o'clock, the Instrumental Clubs will give a concert in the Hall, while on the following Wednesday, December 17, at 8.30 o'clock an informal rendering of what is described as "more serious music" will be given in the Tower Room, in honor of the donor of the piano which is there in use. Concerning this latter program, details are as yet undecided upon...