Word: semicircular
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...said Caricaturist Covarrubias, except six or seven Cadillacs), a nine-foot painting of Author Brush. As his swan song, Architect Joseph Urban added an even more fabulous workroom-a round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl of U. S. letters...
...dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...