Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer rain, jamming the road from London to the Surrey town of Lingfield with so many cars that the Automobile Association had to put up special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain and the second in or near Europe (the other...
...they were about ready for a tricky piece of surgery they call "fishing through the ice." Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve had been sharpest. More X rays showed the new position of the vertebrae, indicated how many would have to be fused...
...from the pond to the Charles River was bridged yesterday to make it easier for conservationists to study the area, first brought to public attention by Bernard DeVoto '18 in an article in Harper's Magazine. The fence, extending across the dirt road which runs the length of the rectangular area, will keep out potential rubbish-dumpers and motorists...
...city of Paris' notorious Sante prison is a grim, rectangular complex of grey buildings peopled with waiting men. Most are waiting for trial in the criminal courts; a few are awaiting freedom and the end of light sentences too short to warrant sending them to departmental prisons; a grim handful await death in the prison courtyard. At 7:30 one morning last week, all of them were awaiting the same thing-coffee. The "juice," as the prisoners call it, is passed out to them each morning just a half hour after the day shift comes on to relieve...
...carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold. After 30 minutes he lifted out a 2-in.-by-4-in. rectangular section of the boy's back and poked inside with a pair of tongs...