Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant considered the Harvard Faculty member as well: on a year round schedule, he cannot be expected "to keep his freshness and vigor as a teacher or as a scholar," and arrangements are being made to give him a one term rest out of three or four...
Fond of most sports, he plays golf in the gos, plays tennis all the year round (in winter in the $500,000 Tennis House which his father & friends had built near by). When he can get away, he takes his wife skiing, or goes duck-hunting...
...watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
...pigs, who were the cleverest of the farm animals. Two pigs were outstanding: Napoleon, a big, rather fierce-looking boar of a Stalinesque taciturnity and resoluteness, and Snowball, an ingenious pig of Trotsky-esque vivacity and eloquence. There was also a somewhat Molotovish barrow named Squealer, "with very round cheeks, twinkling eyes, nimble movements, and a shrill voice. He was a brilliant talker, and when he was arguing some difficult point he had a way of skipping from side to side and whisking his tail which was somehow very persuasive...
...Comrade! "The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership. Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horserake ... and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out 'Gee up, comrade!' or 'Whoa back, comrade...