Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the meeting opened, Mr. Duncan suggested that, by virtue of his long service, he himself deserved the Presidency to round out his career. Then someone nominated Mr. Green, saying that it was necessary to choose a man who might be re-elected by the convention of the Federation. No other nomination was made; and eight votes were cast for William Green (he and Duncan not voting). Then Mr. Duncan offered his resignation as Vice President, saying that he intended to retire...
...French debt to Britain is, in round figures, $3,000,000,000. Britain has intimated her intention of collecting from Germany and her debtor Allies only a sum sufficient to cover her War debt of more than $4,000,000,000 to the U. S. This would have the effect of cutting the French debt to Britain by about two-thirds-provided that Germany pays up. The French are anxious to ascertain, if possible, the definite limit of her obligation to Britain...
Announcement was made by way of Paris that Tsar Boris of Bulgaria is about to make the annually projected courting tour of Europe in search of a bride. Courting has a special sense for him; it means a round of the courts to court some eligible young princess. The young Tsar, nearly 31 years of age, son of long-nosed Ferdinand (who abdicated in 1918) intends to travel first to Belgrade, capital of Yugo-Slavia, where there are no princesses, but where he may meet Rumanian Queen Marie's youngest progeny -Princess Ileana who, however...
...citizen-students would cultivate their own fields round about the settlement, would work in carpenter shops, smithies, the village bank and in their own autonomous village government, including a Council of Seven (seniors only) of executive authority, and various stewardships for public safety, welfare, health, etc. A citizen-student prosecuting attorney would cross-examine malefactors brought before a citizen-student judge by citizen-student policemen, defended by a citizen-student public advocate...
...giant's assorted bonbons, lined in neat layers Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Piled tissues of blue smoke hung over them. In the middle of the smoke, lights glared on a little square wherein a white man, a black man, opposed each other. Tom Gibbons, famed for lasting 15 rounds against Jack Dempsey at Shelby, was fighting Kid Norfolk. Four rounds went by. Black Norfolk bounded, attacked; White Gibbons stepped lightly out, stepped briskly in, drove his fists against the sleek black ribs, the shiny black face. The fifth round came. No longer did the black man attack. Just before...