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Word: round (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defending champion, Way Avory of Dartmouth, paced three of his team mates into the quarter-final round of the New England Intercollegiate Divisional Tennis Tournament at Hanover yesterday, defeating the sole surviving Crimson netter, Corey Wynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVORY, DARTMOUTH NET ACE, PACES TEAMMATES | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Verdicts of Sanity | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence. . . . For one thing, you may go in for corset lacing. Front lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better to accentuate the bust . . . some corsets mount from two to six inches above the waist. . . . Already, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Died. Charles Percy Dixon, 66, captain of the British tennis team which defeated Australia, captained by the great Norman E. Brookes, in the Davis Cup challenge round of 1912; after long illness; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Whirl your liquor round like blazes, Arrah gudaguddug do you think l'm dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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