Word: round-the-world
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...Appleton layer reflects certain radio waves around the earth. Sir Edward's experiments proved the possibility of round-the-world broadcasting...
Divorced. William P. (Bill) Odom, 28, record-breaking (73 hrs. 5 min.) round-the-world flyer (the Reynolds Bombshell); by Dorothy W. Odom, 28; after nearly nine years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
During his ministry there, he took a lengthy round-the-world trip as secretary to Y.M.C.A. Leader Sherwood Eddy. A frequent globetrotter, his acquaintance among world churchmen is wide and cordial; one of Amsterdam's highlights was the beardy kisses of welcome that Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens gave him in the robing room before the opening service. In 1928, Oxnam became president of DePauw University in Indiana; in 1936, at 44, he was elected bishop-then Methodism's youngest-and assigned to the Omaha area...
...managing director of TIME-LIFE International (our 'round-the-world publishing and newsgathering operation), made the trip to present to British businessmen and government officials our recent survey The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States (A Letter from the Publisher, May 31); to visit some of our News Bureaus abroad; and to talk business with our distributing agent in Czechoslovakia, where TIME and LIFE are still banned...
...Earl P. Haney of Winchester, Mass. was forced (by ulcers) "to give up a fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...