Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alumni Club. The delegates of the five Arab states in U.N. gathered round to congratulate London-educated Lawyer Cattan. They formed a group of westernized Arabs, divided by many rivalries, but united by a common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes...
Disaster caught up with the Crimson representatives to the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament at Williamstown yesterday. Bill Wightman and Ted Backe, after sweeping through their first two matches on Monday, were each eliminated in the third round and quarter-finals respectively...
Backe paired up with Charlie Pratt to reach the quarter final round of the doubles before the Williams team came to plague them again, winning two sets out of three...
...Hughes radar, like all others, sends out brief bursts of high-frequency radio waves both ahead of the plane and below it. When these echo back from the ground (or from the sea or buildings), a receiving apparatus measures the time the waves take to make the round trip. If any return quickly enough to indicate that an obstacle is within 2,000 ft. from the airplane, a bell rings and a bright light flashes in the cockpit. The pilot can then pull into a climb in time to avoid any "terrain" hidden in the overcast (see diagram...
...like being a poet," sighed Adolf Dehn. "You don't make money at it." For 20 years his lithographs of round-bellied priests, frock-coated bankers, mountain landscapes and Midwestern barnyards had been finding their way into museums and the portfolios of connoisseurs. But stocky, Minnesota-born Adolf Dehn wanted a quicker and handsomer welcome from fortune than Ralph Blakelock got (see above...