Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...
Costing nearly a million dollars, the building is strictly classical in style, rectangular in shape, with Ionian pilasters, on the fads. The foundations extend 22 feet below the surface in order to accommodate two floors of book-stacks...
...city, said he, is an organism, evolves like other living things. It begins as a village, roughly square in shape, then, constantly reaching out and expanding like an amoeba, it grows into an irregularly rectangular town, develops into a triangular metropolis, finally shoots out long tentacles or arms (the suburbs). All these processes Professor Bailey calls "conurbanisms." Within the city, also, changes in the organs take place. Thus in Chicago decentralization has been going on, and today there are 50 outlying business centres more conspicuous from the air than the Loop. Most startling observation by Professor Bailey is that...
...Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...
...Paul Kelpe, 35, German-born adept at solidly built, rectangular abstractions...