Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nervously. His well-cut white head was bent forward; his eyes strayed toward Senator Norris, dropped, scanned the chamber. Senator Jones of Washington glanced up from the workaday stack of books and papers on his desk. Senator Johnson of California in the front row swung his red chair halfway round to watch. His colleague, Senator Shortridge, folded his long arms with stately dignity across his narrow chest...
Chinese Dynamite. Instituters are fond of the words "dare" and "dynamite." They boast that at their round tables the unofficial delegates rush in where statesmen dare not, grapple with questions too dynamitey for diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered...
...visitors expected, 100 are members of the Boston association, while college facility members, clergymen, and laymen compose the remaining 300. They will attend any one of the three round tables which will begin Tuesday afternoon...
Four hundred or more people have accepted invitations to attend the sessions to be held at Harvard Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13 under the direction of the Calvert Round Table of Boston. This organization will hold a seminar in the Fogg Museum on those days to discuss various aspects of problems arising from the relations of Catholics, Jews and Protestants...
...growth in numbers with which we are familiar has not been uniform. While the total of students enrolled in the University has been from 1,300 in 1879 to 11,000 in 1929, the total in Harvard College has been from 800 to 3,200. (I use round numbers.) The University has grown eight-fold; the College but four-fold. To put it in another way: in our time Harvard College contained the great majority of the University students; now the other departments contain the great majority...