Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Global Round Table...
...meaning of the emblem that headed your REPORT FROM THE WORLD [TIME, Jan. 6; Jan. 20]. In the beginning it did not make much sense. . . . But after studying it for a while it suddenly came clear [that] those "symbols" were contoured likenesses of the members of a global round-table conference...
...renaissance began in 1944 when Franklin Trask, formerly a student at the Graduate School of Education and a teacher of drama exhumed from its mouldy sepulcher the idea of a year round stock company. He procured Brattle Hall for his winter headquarters and began enticing New York actors and actresses away at non-astronomical wages with the bait, rare for the theatrical world, of steady work in one place. He figured that he could attract full houses without paid advertising by scaling ticket prices down, putting on a different play every week, and distributing large numbers of "guest" tickets...
Each group will be limited to 20 students who have signified on the poll sheets their interest in one of the 12-odd topics. Under the leadership of graduate students, each body will "serve to round out the structure set up by the students' courses." Meetings will be held twice a month, alternately at Radcliffe and at the College...
...preliminary elimination round of the oratory tournament will be held on March 12, and the contest itself has been set for 8 o'clock on Wednesday, March 26, Professor Spencer revealed. Paine Hall of the Music Building, scene of many past Boylston competitions, has not definitely been decided on for this year's competition, he said...