Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, organized labor was reasonably well satisfied with recent wage boosts, and no one expected another round of demands for many months. By that time, Price Boss Donald Gordon hoped that supply & demand would keep prices in line. Another factor: a recent poll of Canadians showed a majority favored price control...
...first day, one Spanish, one Portuguese, one Brazilian and seven U.S. boats quit because of broken rudders, sprung masts, bad weather. On the third day, in rough weather, George Fleitz, 32, of Los Angeles, in his Wench II, set a world record for the 10-mile round-the-buoys course. Time: 1:37:33. His Wench II piled up so many points on the record day that Owner Fleitz marched off with the three-foot silver trophy, after a ceremonious ducking in the refuse-filled Almendares River...
...part of this, stockholders could thank the general high level of U.S. retailing. But they could also thank round-faced little Fred Lazarus, 62, ablest of Ohio's famed Lazarus brothers, Simon, Robert and Jeffrey. When Fred Lazarus stepped into Federated's presidency in 1945, the organization was little more than a device by which its five members,*through cross-ownership of each other's stock, protected themselves against regional slumps...
Pretentious thud that it is, The Razor's Edge nonetheless rates a round of applause for trying to be a movie with an Idea. The real trouble in this case: the movie technicians-including the director-are far too clever and too efficient for their material; it has become dangerous to let them kick an Idea around-unless it is a very, very robust Idea. By the time 4.000 competent craftsmen have focused their cold lights on Mr. Maugham's little sermon, pulled it through 89 dressy sets, photographed it tenderly from every possible angle and spiced...
...Conference also formulated a round-robin schedule of dual meets among the eight schools of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League. With membership at full strength for the first time since the war, the League will climax this year's activities in the Seventh Annual Individual Championship Meet at the Yale pool on March 21 end 22. With its athletic, building destroyed by fire, Princeton has been forced to transfer all of its home meets with league opponents to the latters' tanks...