Word: rotund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after. In 1933 he announced his resolve to start a union for reporters. A few months later the American Newspaper Guild was founded, with Broun as chairman. Most of its routine work was done by other officers, but Broun was always the Guild's presiding saint: his rotund figure constantly protected...
...Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...
...being a good swimmer (5% is natural ability; 5% guts). Dave Stearns, leader of the '42 team, typifies the Sophomores: he has spirit--works hard and once tried unsuccessfully to throw a newspaperman into the pool: he has a measure of speed, and he enjoys pulling his rotund body through the water. So do his classmates. With these things in mind, Mr. Ulen, who hasn't had a n natural swimmer since Art Bosworth, can almost let a smile cruse his stormy countenance...
Married. Arthur ("Artie") McGovern, trainer of Babe Ruth and Gene Sarazen, operator of a Manhattan gymnasium, where he molds Paul Whiteman and other rotund celebrities into prettier shapes; and Mrs. Ethel Colten; both for the second time; in South Bend...
...Rufous, rotund Sergeant Alvin C. York, backwoods schoolteacher who became U. S. World War Hero No. 1 by capturing 132 Germans singlehanded, predicted that World War II would be short, set a 30-day time limit before the "great Hitler disappearance" into Holland...