Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor mogul of the B.&M. admitted he didn't know how long Snotrains have been running;"I couldn't even give you a judicious estimate. But let me toll you one thing, they're all equipped with luxurious modern air conditioned cars, and it only costs $3.25 round trip to North Conway...
...last picture, was a Capra production, and its successful mixture of fantasy, allegory, and sentiment was a demonstration of brilliant skill and showmanship. "Magic Town," on the other hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent of being a fantasy, and certainly has none of the elements characteristic of a good fantasy, it seldom seems to be anything else...
Looking hard for a silver lining, Marshall Field Jr., now assistant to Finnegan, said: "Now we certainly ought to get into the black." But staffers had their doubts. Round-the-clock papers have seldom worked well except in monopoly cities, where readers had no choice but to buy them morning & night. Newsmen once more asked an old question: did Marshall Field intend to stay in the newspaper business...
...well. Soon, Hubble will take his first photograph of the depths of space. It will be a historic night - an extra-clear night with the sky velvety black and the stars, though bright, twinkling hardly at all. Hubble will go into the observatory after dusk, rise to the big round telescope chamber in a push-button elevator...
Pleased. Beth Steel's Eugene Grace was pleased. But he was also worried. He knew as well as anyone that fat profits would heat up labor's demands for another round of wage boosts. It is better to cut prices, Grace said: "Lower prices would be beneficial to industry and the country as a whole." But Steelman Grace said nothing about cutting his prices, and neither did any other leaders of his industry...