Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis. First to offer assistance to the Committee in its task of "selecting another," was round-faced, black-haired Senator Frank B. Willis booming Dry. "If the Republicans of Ohio feel that I can creditably represent them ... I shall feel it a great honor to do so," he boomed. Portentious silence greeted this statement...
...France has received the order "Arrest M. Leon Daudet on sight"-but Daudet has managed to conceal his whereabouts. Therefore a sensation burst last week, at Paris, when it was announced that Editor Daudet would positively address a Royalist audience at the Salle Builler. Soon police swarmed 'round this innocuous auditorium. When the meeting came to order, its chairman smilingly gestured at empty air and introduced "Our honored leader." A voice was heard. Although sepulchral, it was unmistakably the voice of M. Daudet. Policemen cocked their ears a moment, then strolled disgustedly away. They could not arrest the loudspeaker...
...operating costs for the ship owners, would permit lower fares, would stimulate tourist travel (TIME, May 18, 1925). the cabin boats have followed Merchant Filene's general plan to their owner's profit. By reducing winter fares, as Mr. Filene also suggested, the lines have gained year-round traffic. Last week the Cosulich Line, operating between New York and Adriatic ports, announced that it would build eight new ships for Filene-plan service. Six will be of 10,000 gross tons, two of 40,000 gross tons. Fares on at least the smaller six will be $125 from...
...innings, the longest game in Harvard-Yale baseball history. In 1914, by mutual agreement, for one year, the coach was banished from the bench and the players left to their own initiative. The following year Harvard, Yale, and Princeton agreed to play a round robin series of three games with each other...
...Observers have spoken of China as the merry-go-round of the world. In this strange land presidents, emperors, and governments fall one day, and rise no more; kings are imprisoned, railways are commandered, and treasuries disappear where no auditor can trace them...