Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unmoved, round-faced Frank J. Taylor, chief negotiator for the 39 lines using some 2,400 War Shipping Administration bottoms,* declared flatly that the operators could not pay. The demands, said he, would raise costs to such an exaggerated point that the U.S. Merchant Marine could not compete with foreign shipping -particularly that of Britain and the Scandinavian countries...
...time, which destroys many more artful and more careful men, has vastly enhanced Audubon's greatness. His work hangs in scores of U.S. museums. He has been the hero of a round dozen biographies -and of several efforts to prove that he was really the "lost dauphin" of France. Popular editions of his Birds of America have sold over 200,000 copies. The Audubon Societies have perpetuated his name through hundreds of bird sanctuaries, imperceptibly transformed the artist who used to kill as many as 100 birds a day for sport into a sort of scientific St. Francis. Last...
Next day, the pair moved to Mamaroneck, N.Y., and dovetailed the second half of their match into the Goodall round-robin tourney. By the twelfth green, Burton was out. In the round-robin, he quickly became isth in a field of 15. But he got to see some sub-70 performances by U.S. golfers-with no teeing up on the fairways. The lowest: Jug McSpaden's seven-under...
...hardly warmed up to the job when they discovered that Nature had done it 50,000,000 years ago: flies and other "dipterous insects" were actually equipped with vibrating gyroscopic flight instruments (see cut). Just behind the trailing edge of each wing they had "halteres": small rods with round balls on their ends. When the insect is airborne, or even walking, these vibrate 160 to 210 times per second. The plane of vibration is fixed in relation to the insect's fuselage. When the insect banks, turns climbs or dives, the gyroscope tries to keep vibrating in the same...
Other prominent class reunions include those of the Classes of 1901, 1926, 1931, and 1936 and will feature the customary round of cocktails, clambakes, luncheons, hand-shaking, back-pounding, and haven't-seen-you-sinces...