Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commons- ¶Applauded heartily a proposal Vernon Hartshorn, Welsh Laborite, suggesting a round table conference between Laborite and Conservative M. P.'s to settle the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.). The Government promptly spiked this proposal. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary for War, pointed out that no matter what was negotiated at the "round table" it would not be binding upon the miners, owners. Debate upon the Baldwin anti-strike legislation (TIME, June 28) was postponed. One million miners continued on strike...
...weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister of War, was named as field generalissimo of the movement...
...sculptors of the Periclean Athens, of whom Phidias was the greatest, must all be studied in copies. Roman workers, little more than capable.artisans, copied bronze in marble, marble in bronze; statues in the round were copied in relief; the size was reduced, even the proportions altered. Only two works of Phidias have been surely recognized in copies-the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus...
...proposed to build a new chapel as a memorial to Harvard's dead in the great way. Plans for this chapel, not definite plans it seems, have been published. These show a curious arrangement. A Gorgian type of main body is used that is an oblong with round-topped windows on each side, and as both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong...
...weeks before the crews went into training at Gales Ferry, and with the four members left to him from his first eight it is possible that he will be able to work out some sort of a combination. His decision will hinge on the ability of his recruits to round into satisfactory physical condition within the next...