The tensile strength of running monofilament polypropylene sutures anchored with square knots was compared with the strength of the same size sutures anchored with half hitches.
Randhurst dominated shopping in the area for the next decade before being overtaken by the even larger — four anchors, two million square feet of space — Woodfield Mall in nearby Schaumburg in 1971.
He was filling in boxes for the anchors, counting squares and determining the appropriate sizes and areas of the different patterns, until he finally began working on the code itself.
Hot Bread Kitchen, which relocated from Queens about a month ago, is the anchor, with 4,600 square feet of space, half devoted to wholesale baked goods made by women in a program to train them for commercial baking.
The notion of being anchored to large square objects, even beautiful ones, seems preposterous.
Mr. Donovan, who will attend his 50th reunion at Harvard next spring, is among those who still see the ghosts of the Tasty and other former anchors of the square when he walks through.
That space includes what had been a third anchor, a 180,000-square-foot building that was a Stern's, and a separate movie theater, as well as some 40 smaller stores, about half of which are vacant.
By sunset, much of the town seemed to congregate around El Jardín, the small, leafy main square, anchored on its south by La Parroquia, the pink Gothic-style parish church that is San Miguel's most famous landmark.
To satisfy the work requirement, some students have jobs in the academic departments, administrative offices and labs, while others are assigned to the college farm, the workshops that make and sell traditional mountain crafts (its handmade brooms, especially, are well-known treasures) or the college-owned hotel, which anchors the town square.
Mr. Gerber's preferred form is a kind of fastidious monochrome; the show is anchored by a square white one on which he collaborated with the German painter Heimo Zobernig — who palette-knifed white over Mr. Gerber's rolled-on gray, effectively erasing it.
