Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week's score for the Allies: three submarines, 13,615 tons of German shipping. Week's score for Germany: one 29,150-ton battleship, 45,533 tons of Allied shipping. Germany's round...
...priced one, he would mutter. "Pffft! Such crude pigments! My, such a stencil technique-brr-let me get away!" He stopped other gallery-goers to tell them he was the world's greatest artist, passed out handbills describing himself as "Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Humorist Galore, Ex All Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings, on the rare occasions...
Like most of his confreres, Cowboy Carney rodeos ten months of the year, travels by auto, likes pool & poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have...
President Conant's revitalized American Civilization Plan was launched last night with a talk in Leverett House on "Americanism" by Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, while simultaneously the Freshmen held a round-table discussion on "Causes of the American Revolution" at the Union...
Here is a case of two warring powers, England and Germany, both painfully eager to end the fight after the first preliminary round. It would be the saddest event in all history if their peace hopes were frustrated merely because neither is in a position to make direct overtures. Obviously there must be a third power to bring them together, and just as obviously, the President of the United States is in the most logical position...