Word: circularity
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Martyrs Rewarded. In Sept. 1792, the Bishops of Aries, of Beauvais, of Nantes, with priests, deacons, monks, nuns and some laymen of the Church, were butchered in French provincial prisons. This was by invitation of a circular letter, sent to outlying cities by the victorious Paris Commune, anxious to give impression of its strength before the pending election. Danton and Roland, concerned for their own heads, hinted disapproval but did not venture more. The list of victims, definitely though they had disappeared, was long lost, and the Roman Catholic Church remained uncertain of the claims of many to martyrdom...
...dangerous, for they would puncture a male Figure upon collision. Quaint rules for women result. Society is ranked by the number and regularity of its members' sides, from formidable isosceles-triangle policemen with sharp apexes, through an equilaterally -triangular bourgeoisie and square professorial, to a polygonal aristocracy and circular priesthood. The narrator is a square professor who, after a visit to the unbelievably benighted residents of one-dimensional Lineland, is introduced to Spaceland by a Sphere. With a great effort, he masters the conception of a Figure moving "up-ward, not northward" out of its plane. Ironically, he cannot...
...revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
...have them. A Roman Catholic bishop wears an alb, as does, too, the medieval priest of the Eastern Catholic Church. The latter's alb has alternate red and white stripes to signify the blood and bonds of Christ. Chasuble. This (Anglican Church) garb is a heavily embroidered circular garment, sleeveless and to be slipped over the head, made of moiré silk preferably. Over the shoulders and down the spine, spreads a magnificent cross in the shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern Church. Dalmatic and Tunicle. This...
...brotherhood, the memorial is a structure "embodying beauty and permanence, one of the finest memorials in honor of the heroes of the War." Under a keystone chiseled with the inscription, THE TRIUMPHS OF WAR PERISH-THE TRIUMPHS OF PEACE ENDURE, bronze doors open through a colonnade into a circular hall containing twelve windows and four niches in which statues personifying Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity will soon be enshrined. The building faces Lake Michigan at the corner of Lake View avenue and Diversey Park...