Word: rotund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Present head of Charity is rotund, cheery Dr. Roy William Wright, first cousin of defeated Governor Earl Long...
Most startling achievement that FORTUNE records: that throughout ten years of depression the U. S. citizen's power to consume has increased more rapidly than ever before in history. Charts prepared by rotund little Richard Buckminster Fuller, creator of the Dymaxion House and Dymaxion car, establish that, in relation to each citizen in the rest of the world, the U. S. citizen is rich in the forces that developing technology has potentially made available, so rich that "the important fact is not that an old era has passed but that a new era has been born...
...Today, rotund, greying, 49-year-old Lauritz Melchior, the best Heldentenor of them all, is content to rest on his laurels. The father of two grown children (by his first wife, Danish-born Inger Nathansen, who died in 1927), he occasionally frets about 22-year-old Son Ib's cinema ambitions in Hollywood, keeps 19-year-old Daughter Birte hard at her business-school courses in Copenhagen. Though he diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera...
...Amiable, rotund Francis Taylor is one of the young directors now engaged in making U. S. museums look alive.* He believes that a museum's function, like Gaul, is divided into three parts : acquiring art, luring people in to see it, teaching them to make it part of their daily lives. The average American sees the inside of an art museum only once in five years. By upping attendance from 37,000 to 145,000 a year, Director Taylor made a monkey of this average at Worcester. A similar opportunity awaits him at the Metropolitan, where attendance has slumped...