Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
College debating, which has undergone a considerable renascence at Harvard during the last two years, comes in for a round rating in an article in "The Educational Review" by Doctor Vernon L. Mangun, assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, which have been the foremost exponents of the new manly art of self defense, are cited as the outstanding culprits of a system that has saddled an incubus on the high schools. Whereas formerly the issue being debated has been regarded as of at least minor importance, it now received no attention whatever...
...Round and round these immaculate mortals and the man in red, went horses all day long. Polo ponies, saddle horses, hunters, pony tandems, draft horses, tandems, hackneys, artillery horses strapped to caissons, police mounts, jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks. Some walked, some trotted, jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and lost. To add to the illusion, a clatter of old time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge...
...represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners blowing saxophones or beating drums. Sil-houet prints contrast the curves of a roller-coaster runway with the straight lines of tall supports. The emphasis in the toboggan cars suggests a pattern of the Orient rather than Coney Island. So called "message prints...
...president of the National City Bank of New York, tranquil friend of a few intimates speaks: "[During the Gold Panic of 1894 the U. S. Treasury begged [J. P.] Morgan for 50 millions, which he refused, thundering 'Impossible!' Then they came to me and I went 'round to see what I could do: He was greatly upset and overcharged, nearly wept, put his head in his hands and cried: 'They expect the impossible!' So I calmed him down and told him to give me an hour and by that time I cabled for ten millions...