Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over until it is intelligible. If that isn't irritating enough, nature sometimes steps in with a sterner warning-like the lightning bolt that struck the Philadelphia plant one Monday (deadline) night, knocking out the power supply. Type had to be reset in another plant, and teletypesetters worked round the clock. Chances are that your copy of TIME was late that week...
Michigan's round Jesse Wolcott, leader of the Republican pro-loan bloc, corralled an unexpected 61 G.O.P. votes for the bill in the final tally, which showed a split in the ranks of both major parties...
...story began in 1942, when the U.S., shut off from the East Indies, wanted natural rubber at any cost.*Brazil was a possible source. Contracts were signed with the Brazilian Government, which, for $100 a head, agreed to round up and carry workers to the Amazon. Glowing advertisements brought in many a drought-ridden farmer of Brazil's Northeast. Others were shanghaied...
...high-powered work, the cyclotron has had a basic flaw: at very high speeds it runs head on into relativity. In a cyclotron, nuclear bullets (such as deuterons-the nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom) are whirled around in a drum divided across the middle, like a halved round cheese. Each time a bullet crosses the gap between the drum halves, it gets an electrical kick, increasing its speed. Because of the bullet's great speed (it circles the drum in millionths of a second), accurate timing of the kick is all-important. But as the bullet approaches...
...Carison over to the left garden from the position in the sunfield in the last till. Crawford "Call-me-Carl" Hurbbell will take over the stand in right unless he is called on to help out on the mound. Bill Harford, who has been hitting with increasing regularity, will round out the Crimson gardens...