Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...printing equipment were offloaded by mistake on Cebu, 350 miles from Manila . . . two cases which showed up in our shipment turned out to contain typewriters . . . one press arrived so badly damaged it will be a total casualty for at least four months . . . and late in September we had to round up a whole new crew of printers when a polio outbreak quarantined all our plate-makers and pressmen...
...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...
...year-old girl reporter whom Joseph Pulitzer sent round the world in 1889, to see if she could beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, who took 80 days. She made it, by train and steamer...