Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickly in New York; there has been scarcely any rest period between voyages for their burdened, responsible skippers. Capts. Charles Smith and W. R. D. Irvine broke down on the Berengaria; Captain Sir James Charles recently died on the Aquitania. Hereafter their regular captains will take them for three round trips and then be relieved by Capt. Prothero on the ensuing voyage...
...Prof. Hatton's round table was only one of many. Dizzy was the rate with which all U. S. (and some foreign) affairs spun metaphorically round and round. Thus, for example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded...
...Scandinavia and Germany there are even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round the class distinction by installing "soft" and "hard" sleeping cars...
Upon this forbidding land there will soon advance the most elaborate party of exploration the world has ever seen-the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. Seventy men and 75 dogs are prepared to travel 20,000 miles (round trip), build a village in a frozen continent, roam over some 4,600,000 square miles of unknown territory for a year and a half. Almost incidental is their purpose of flying over the South Pole. No expedition ever departed with such vast objects, or with such luxurious equipment...
...Grand Trunk is James W. Blake, benign-looking, round-faced man who wears eyeglasses. His Order of the Elephants, which he founded, tries to spread happiness among business men. The only requirement for membership is to keep smiling. Lodges are called "tusks...