Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph, according to his bureau chief, John Stanton, is a warm, round, emotional, faintly picaresque Mexican who somehow "manages to remind you vaguely of Queen Victoria." His seemingly inexhaustible, elastic and highly valuable know-how is the result of all that Ralph has been and is. His familiarity with Mexican ways is perhaps best exemplified by his faith in the power of documents. Unimpressed by the ordinary correspondent's press card, he designed his own. It has space for his photograph, for numerous stamps -also of his own design-and for signatures and counter-signatures. The TIME bureau chief...
...round of ceremony began again. President Truman drove over to the National Palace for a formal welcome by President Aleman. At 7:30 he was back for a state dinner in the Comedor under the great crystal candelabra installed by Mexico's ill-fated Maximilian and Carlotta...
...comes to Cambridge with a well-conditioned team boasting a record of close matches with former Crimson opponents. Strong in the weights where the Varsity is weak, Springfield has good men in the light classes, a captain who wrestlers at either 136 or 145, and a 230-pounder to round out its squad at heavyweight...
Next time you go into University Hall, notice the large, round wooden frameworks that look like portholes in the sides of the main floor halls. Imagine yourself looking through these portholes, not into a cozy dean's office, but into a good-sized dining hall. Instead of dining hall, call it Commons, think of freshly cooked food being brought up from the kitchens in the cellar and passed into the Commons through the portholes, and visualize the room full of a much noisier group of students than the sort that eats in the Houses these days. You will be picturing...
...final elimination of undergraduates from all but occasional and official visits to University Hall. Exactly the same size as the original chapel, this room is where the monthly meetings of the faculty take place. President Conant sits directly beneath the portrait of President Eliot at the head of the round table shown in the picture, Dean Buck to his right, and Dean Hanford to his left. The rest of the faculty faces them, and despite the austere portraits of men such as Longfellow, Agassiz, Henry James, and the famous professor of Greek, Evangeliuns Apostolides Sophocles, the dignity of tradition occasionally...