Word: rotundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more than her rotund and equally famed, tennis-playing father Tom (U. S. doubles champion with Maurice Mclaughlin in 1912, 1913, 1914), was promptly put out (6-2, 6-3) in the semi-finals by Chile's Anita Lizana, the nimble daughter of a Santiago professional. Meantime Jadwiga Jedrzejowska eliminated Helen Jacobs, whom...
...before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into action...
...only three months of warfare, must collapse financially after that period. Realists pointed that bankruptcy seldom stops wars, but pointed out too that China's finances, almost as precarious, have been in general improving as Japan's declined. Busily touring Europe recently, drumming up loans has been rotund Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Britain but just how much no one could say. They were enough at least for him to visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with...
...girls at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. their ruddy, rotund President James Madison Wood is affectionately known as "Daddy." For three days last week Stephens' rolling campus, bridle paths and dormitories were thronged with 600 old Stephens graduates, assembled for a special meeting of their alumnae association. Together with 1,500 other guests including Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, they were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee...
...1880s, war-weary Founder Abell began to turn the Sun over to three of his boys. Of these, rotund George William served as president until 1894. Benign Son Edwin Franklin then took over. To needy folk, Son Edwin would give bits of paper with "$10 - E.F.A." scribbled across them. These informal checks were always good for face value with the Sun's cashier. In the 1880's and 90's, the Sun tackled the Maryland Democratic political machine in a running fight...