Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe in anything else but free trade all round. I don't know what a tariff means, except that it means giving one crowd an advantage over another. Free trade is competition, and nothing can get large enough if you won't have competition...
...could and did portray all visible things whatsoever which were chosen by his often niggling patrons. Last week in his native city-quaint, medieval, storied Nuremberg-men paused to remember that Albrecht Dürer died there just four hundred years ago. They prowled up the steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable detail or turn to portray with simple, moving...
...recent and contradictory speeches of Pope Pius XI and Prime Minister Mussolini-speeches which had seemed to place them on opposite sides of a dispute as to whether the education of Italian youths shall be purely secular and Fascist, or partially religious and Roman Catholic (TIME, April 9). Round 1 of the apparent quarrel had ended when Il Duce backed up his speech by suppressing all non-Fascist youth organizations, including the Roman Catholic Boy Scouts. Therefore it behooved the Vatican to explain, last week, that no quarrel had ever existed. The task of tidying up and if possible effacing...
Merge not only productions units. Merge also raw material units, selling units, consumers' units. Merge them sidewise-like with like-horseshoe maker with horseshoe maker. Merge them up and down-coal miner, iron miner, pig iron founder, horseshoe forger, blacksmith, teamster. Merge them round and round-blacksmith, nail maker, harness maker, feedman, stableman, veterinarian, buggy maker, cabby...
...proxy of the British Museum until his English competitor had done so. After ?10,000, the price went up more slowly. "Ten thousand and a hundred," said Mr. Dring. "And a hundred," said Mr. Maggs. Dr. Rosenbach took off his glasses; "And a hundred," he whispered. For one round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery sat back, talking and sighing. They wanted to see the Museum get it, not to have it leave England; but they began to see that there was no way to pass the bids of the collectors...