Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have guessed that night, success hadn't changed Bummy any: he still got into trouble. A few months later he was arrested for beating up a Brooklyn clothing salesman. At Madison Square Garden, in 1940, he fouled Fritzie Zivic, no Galahad himself, with ten groin punches in one round, wound up by kicking the referee, all but started a riot...
...Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers. Lately he had worked for WPB's labor division. The Times, in hiring Streator for general reporting, followed the example of four neighbors : the Herald Tribune, Post and Brooklyn Eagle, each of which has one Negro staffer, and PM, which...
Last winter he got leave, scurried to London to round up some musical cronies, rented a hall in suburban Wembley. He packed the hall for three concerts. In the concerts at the larger Adelphi Theater he has had to turn away crowds. Last week's show at the Adelphi sold better than the last time the London Philharmonic played there. To the first session Gross invited a handful of notables to come and hear for themselves. Sir Adrian Boult, Pianist Myra Hess and Composer Benjamin Britten sent regrets, but Mrs. Anthony Eden came, and wrote a fan letter. Tenor...
Last week an exhibition of De Creeft's latest liberations opened in a Manhattan gallery. It proved that he does find his figures in stones, and keeps them there. Anyone could tell that his Aux Aguets (In Ambush) had been carved from a round boulder. His figures had none of the hovering aliveness of Epstein's Lucifer, nor did they seem to think and gesture as some 15th-Century German cathedral carvings do. They just lay around-like beautiful rocks...
...element is a substance each of whose atoms contains the same number of electrons. Until recently, scientists thought there were 92 elements, ranging from hydrogen (with one electron circling round its nucleus) to uranium (with 92). All the intervening numbers had been accounted for. So the chemists sat back, feeling that their long search for elements had been completed...