Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Around and about, in and out, hands in pockets, wandered gray-suited, round-shouldered Caraway of Arkansas, shrewd sarcastigator. He hates to sit down and seldom does so. This morning he was caught far from his desk, between two pages down in front, as the prayer began...
Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts...
...with the Elliott-Fisher Co. (general office equipment) as the Underwood-Elliott-Fisher Co. The new corporation will match Remington Rand Inc. created last spring from Rand-Kardex (visible indexes), Baker-Vawter (filing cabinets) and Dalton Adding Machine (TIME, Feb. 28). It is possible that Underwood-Elliott-Fisher may round out their office equipment business by inducing Burroughs Adding Machines, International Business Machines and Yawman & Erbe (filing cabinets) to join them...
With a little more than a week of practice behind them the University hockey and basketball squads are beginning to round into shape. Both teams will have games on December 9 when the hockey sextet will clash with M. I. T. and the basketball five will meet Boston College...
...other point upon which college debating stands indicted in the mind of Doctor Mangun is the reversal of positions that each team must take in such a round-robin as the Harvard-Yale Princeton triangular debates. He quotes the damning evidence of the yellowed newspaper clipping. "Following their victory over the Yale affirmative the Harvard men demonstrated their versatility 'by taking the opposite side against Princeton and again winning the judges' decision...