Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee's prowess, for the most part, is attributed to modest, Texas-born Major Robert Reese Neyland (pronounced knee-land), football coach since 1926. Famed 25 years ago as one of the greatest all-round athletes ever turned out at West Point, The Major (as he is known to his players) is at long last being recognized as one of the great football coaches of the U. S. In twelve years (one year he was unable to coach because of Army duty in the Canal Zone)* he has turned out six undefeated teams, and his record of 102 victories...
...attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines are placed upside down. . . . Lastly, each man, as he lies or kneels down behind his machine, sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...
Besides examining new instruments, spending their afternoons at colored movies of surgical operations, and cutting up in 45 Philadelphia hospitals, the surgeons gathered at round tables, swapped the surgical shoptalk of the year...
Into a war so gingerly regarded from the start by almost every mature writer of Britain, many writers were going while yet immature and unknown. Nobody could foresee who might survive it, nor what writing might come of it. Yet there were many to remember Wilfred Owen, the round-faced, silent young officer who was killed a week before the Armistice in 1918, and the few terrible poems published after his death...
...Marxism: "I have watched the tradition of Marxian bad manners and Marxian dogmatism wrapping like a blanket of fog round the minds of two crucial generations...