Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trainmen on Chicago's elevated lines, piqued because the company sent out retroactive pay rise checks to its white-collar workers before getting round to them, snarled traffic all afternoon with a work stoppage which was called as "proof our union will preserve its dignity...
...reporting what it sees to a distant screen. Since it is non-human and expendable, it can be stationed in dangerous places (e.g., near an atomic explosion). Properly set up, it can see without being seen. According to rumor, the FBI has already put in an order for a round dozen...
...Paris, diplomats and common men moved in solemn lines past the bier of a fallen world figure, Aristide Briand. Across the Seine, in a room on the Avenue Victor Emmanuel III, another world, figure wrote three short notes. One of them ended: "Goodbye now and thanks. I.K." The big, round-faced man rose from his desk, smoothed out the unmade bedclothes, lay down, shot himself with a pistol just below the heart...
Thursdays Off. Canadian-born President Harold Taylor studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, intending to write novels when he got through. At his graduation in 1935 he was astonished to find himself awarded a scholarship "as the best all-round man" in the class. He stayed on for an M.A., took his Ph.D. at London University. Then he got a teaching job at the University of Wisconsin, took out U.S. citizenship papers, and with a young English wife settled down in a remodeled barn for what he thought was a lifetime of philosophy and writing...
...what prices are above the ceiling. It turned down a request of the Ford Motor Co., the first to apply for a 10-to-15% increase in 1942 car prices. The OPA suggested that Ford modify its increase, but did not say how much. This put Ford's round-faced sales manager, John Raymond Davis, on the hottest competitive spot in the industry...