Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President asked the General Board of the Army to draft a proposal for suitably rewarding the aviators who made the round-the-world-flight. Several bills granting promotion, bonuses, etc., have been proposed in Congress but not seriously considered. The President wished to present and press a bill approved by the Army.* ¶ Mr. and Airs. Coolidge attended the dedication of the Washington Community Christmas tree, opened voluminous mail, received numerous presents, attended church, heard choral singing at the north portico of the White House by the choir of the First Congregational Church: Bells of Christmas, The First Noel, Sleep...
Liabilities, which did not include some 120,000,000,000 francs* owing to the U. S. and Britain, were listed in round figures...
...balance sheet showed the state of France as at July 31 last year. Assets, which did not include unconvertible property, were listed as follows in round figures: ASSETS FRANCS
Sloth drowses in his garden. His flowers have long fallen away, and round his sotted head creep the lank leaves of poison...
...company of pallid medical students in an overlighted surgical theatre, peering round-eyed, in sadistic ecstasy, while an instructor surgeon, cowled and gloved, removed and lectured upon the guts of a tortured dog. This gruesome spectacle, set forth in all its horrid details in the pages of the more mawkish journals, has induced many a kind-hearted madame to weep into her breakfast dish of tea, has spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause...