Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meantime the Federal Reserve Board fired the first round in the new war on deflation by ruling that people may now buy stocks on a cash payment...
...only six months on the air, "Heart Throb" Barker's Merry-Go-Round had built an audience of 20 million (fully as large as that of Tommy Handley, long Britain's No. 1 radio funnyman). There were two good reasons for Heart Throb's success: 1) he had won a wide following among British servicemen as a wartime overseas entertainer; 2) Britons love their own variety of corn, and Barker gives it to them thickly buttered with Briticisms. Last week's program, like all the others, reported the high & low life of a spavined spa called...
...financial investment, tarsiers add up to important zoological money. They are about the size of squirrels. Their tails, equipped with sensitive hairs, are nearly twice as long as their bodies. They have round, owlish eyes and operate mostly at night, hopping through the branches like miniature kangaroos...
...World. With it, ambitious Jack Frye had another dream; he hoped to make T.W.A. the No. 1 round-the-world airline. But erratic, unpredictable Howard Hughes began to balk at the money Frye was spending. Frye tried to persuade Hughes that overseas expansion would pay off in the end, urged him to get new capital for T.W.A. Frye even lined it up (for example, a $100,000,000 credit line at Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co.). But Hughes would have none of it. He was not entirely sold on round-the-world expansion and he was leary of losing...
...same pair entered an individual extemporaneous speech meet on Saturday with speakers from Princeton, Yale, and West Point also competing. General Maxwell Taylor, commander of the Military Academy, served as a judge in the forensic contest which lasted for several rounds. Eckstein placed fifth in the third round of speeches...