Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Report from the World" is a notable milestone of the Cleveland Council as a community influence. Per man, woman & child, the nation's sixth city has become its most international-minded. Cleveland's Council now has almost 4,000 members, of whom half are men. The year-round program of the Council includes speakers who are a small "Who's Who" of U.S. and foreign authorities. Council topics are then carried by the members into dozens of neighborhood and other small group forums. In 450 of these meetings last year foreign affairs played to audiences totaling more...
...anything about the weather. On Nov. 13, they proved that they could turn a cold cloud into snow by sprinkling it with dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week, Schaefer told of a further triumph. He walked into a cold ground fog swinging a wire basket of dry ice round his head. The fog parted, leaving a lane, as the Red Sea water parted for the Children of Israel...
...detective who had not been born when John picked his first pocket saw that round old figure in the throng by a bus stop. He watched him for a while, and then tapped him on the shoulder...
Copy by the Clock. Every day Jones leaves his suburban home at precisely 8:15, reaches the News at 9:15, starts for the courts at 10. He does his crossword puzzle on the subway, finishes it during dull cases, if it's a tough one. His round is unfailing: Monday, Bow Street; Tuesday, Marlborough Street; Wednesday, Old Street; Thursday, Clerkenwell; Friday, Bow Street again. Jones leaves the court by 11:30, lunches at 12 exactly, begins to write at 12:30, is through at two. He is home again at 4:15 (having stopped for a drink...
...roundup," a quick look at people in scattered places, was invented by newspapers, borrowed with spectacular success by radio. Last week the New York Times used it with good results. To 18 Times correspondents round the world went cabled orders for a 600-word interview with a "common man" in each country...