Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Elevator. Slowly (5 m.p.h.) the Andersons went round & round the 80-acre field, cutting the golden stalks to beige stubble. Once an hour they stopped and Harold Robb came alongside with the truck. Into it spilled about 70 bushels of grain from each machine. Harold Robb drove the truck back to the barn. There Frank Anderson had built a private elevator (capacity 12,000 bushels), with cemented interior and motored conveyor...
...clock, after the tarpaulins had been thrown over the engines, Frank Anderson and his helpers were too tired to talk about being tired. Back at the barn, Frank milked again, while Jack fed the horse and slopped the pigs. Then the men fell to Zula's thick round steak, fried potatoes, tomatoes, lemon-meringue...
...there were some who scoffed at it. But military men saw a point that few laymen seemed to consider: in war a power with mastery of the atom would no more attack a prime enemy target with one bomb than a machine-gunner would go into battle with one round in his magazine...
...Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "What Progress in Cancer Research?" Speakers: Dr. Carl Moore, professor of zoology, University of Chicago; Dr. Charles Huggins, professor of surgery, U. of C.; Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of Memorial Hospital for Treatment of Cancer, New York City...
...Winds. It looked as if he might. In the second round he pitched dead on the pin with perfect aim, sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing...