Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judge: "If, by firing a round, you can save lives and a ship, you cannot give the order to fire...
Believing that a look at the past is worth two at the present, the pacifist Christian Century (nonsectarian weekly) last week began printing a condensation of the best available study of parsons' wartime behavior - Preachers Present Arms, by Sociologist Ray Hamilton Abrams (Round Table Press). When he wrote his book six years ago, Sociologist Abrams was skeptical of clerical calm-downs between wars, pointed out that western civilization possesses "perhaps the greatest war book known to man"-the Bible...
...Oldtimer Miller is more than a little leery of his spotlighted throne. Says he: "I don't want to be the king of swing or anything else. I'd rather have a reputation as one of the best all-round bands...
...Anatomist Eleanor Linton Clark of the University of Pennsylvania accidentally ran a glass tube, fine as a hair, into her finger. A few days later, when her finger swelled, her husband & colleague, Anatomist Eliot Round Clark, probed out the sliver of glass. To their amazement, the Clarks saw tiny blood vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy...
...Jones of the Globe: "Harvard by one or two touchdowns. Harlow has a superior all-round ball-club and more dangerous backs. It may be a thriller...