Word: circularity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Started by Donald B. Watt from the Gurney School in Vermont, the experiment has been in operation for 10 years and according to their circular, it has helped at least 1600 American students to make friends in other countries...
...island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...
...accomplishments of the Big Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report...
Wright laid out a jigsaw puzzle of pierced roofs, gardens, lawns, curving walls and pools. The circular swimming pool, hollowed out around the edge, has columns under water as well as above, enclosing a glassed-in submarine gaxden. Said Wright: "The average swimming pool looks to me like a glorified bathtub...
...chimney: a vertical window through which Loeb would be able to watch the smoke and flame from his hearth, ascending like mercury in a thermometer. The bedrooms, designed to be dark, had no window except a narrow band of glass around the roof-edge. They were circular, air-conditioned "sleeping turrets," cork-lined for added coziness...