Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dynamos seemed pretty sure to win. Nevertheless, hours before game time, streams of Muscovites poured toward the stadium. Hundreds of small boys swarmed over or through the high iron fence, as mounted police tried to round them up and chase them out. Throngs funneling through the stadium ramps were so dense that the gate control collapsed. Some people waved tickets. Others just waded in, until 100,000 jammed the stadium, which seats 75,000. They ignored the steady drizzle which iced the rails and benches. When the local boys, the underdog Spartaks, came from behind...
Smuts's country had failed dismally to advance toward that brave ideal. Egged on by his opposition, the even more reactionary Nationalist Party, Smuts was going deeper & deeper into the racist morass of "white supremacy." Just before leaving for the current round of international conferences, he announced a great campaign to bring to South Africa "thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of immigrants." That they would be white went without saying...
...Chicago Round Table. (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). Senator Robert A. Taft (R., Ohio) and Governor Ellis Arnall (D., Ga.) debate: "The Issues of the Election...
This long-suspected fact is now in the process of being proved, with good, round statistics, by the Gallup-poll organization called Audience Research, Inc. After buttonholing a cross section of box-office customers at one current big-budget movie (title not announced), the pollsters tentatively concluded...
...Round Trip. In Lansing, Kans., Prisoners J. Edward Moler and Harold Malicoat escaped from the state penitentiary, thumbed a ride to Kansas City, found that the driver was penitentiary warden Robert Hudspeth...