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Word: rotunds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...Automobile Mechanics Union began organizing auto dealers' mechanics in Chicago in 1939, Carl Petersen's Chevrolet agency balked. Two of his employees struck and began picketing. After two years of it, they got fed up and quit. The union kept picketing anyway, using Alexander Orr, a ruddy, rotund little Scottish bachelor and professional picket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Picket | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...from easy. Five and a half months ago Adlai Stevenson decided to solve the problem by gratifying his desire to see more of the world. Last week, bouncing out of a DC-6B at New York's Idlewild Airport, Stevenson was home again, tanned, a bit more rotund, and apparently still very eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Home Again | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

Molloy, five foot nine inch junior from Fairfield, Connecticut, has come a long way since the last two minutes of the 1951 Yale game. At that time, he had just set up the Crimson's third touchdown with a sloppy pass into the flat; rotund Herman Hickman sent Molloy into the game with this advice--"you pitch 'em out kid, and I'll start heading out of town." Molloy did indeed "pitch 'em out," connecting for four of five for 65 yards and a touchdown. And although Hickman has since left town, Molloy is still pitching them...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Molloy, Woodsum Lead Powerful Eli Eleven | 11/22/1952 | See Source »

...rotund and genial creator of the comic strip possum had a little difficulty with traffic conditions in the Square and arrived a few minutes late for his scheduled lecture. Kelly, in fact, spent the first part of his informal talk explaining to students his impression of "the way a person in a uniform must feel when surrounded by so many people without uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 1000 Fill New Lecture Hall For Cartoonist Kelly's Pogo-Talk | 5/16/1952 | See Source »

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