Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long stream of carpenters, electricians and movers had worked long hours to put the magnificent house, once the residence of the Duke of Sutherland, into tiptop shape. Carpets were laid, a bar installed, and a brand-new international round table built-a plywood ring, 14 feet in diameter, set on brown varnished legs. Separate chambers were provided for each of the foreign ministers. Mr. Molotov had the most elegant: a paneled room with towering mirrors and gilt scrollwork which was once the Duchess of Sutherland's boudoir...
Atmosphere of 1924. That night the Generalissimo wined & dined Mao. Other guests included Ambassador Hurley, tactful Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...
...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...
Collapsible Francis Xavier Shields ran true to form and collapsed in the third round. Sidney Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
Anthropologists by now have measured so many heads that Dr. Weidenreich feels the evidence is clear. The facts: 1) the Asiatics (notably the Mongols), who were supposed to have contaminated European dolichocephalism, had long heads, not round heads; 2) the only predominantly long-headed groups in the world today are savages in Australia and Africa; 3) civilized men of all races are becoming more & more roundheaded, probably as a result of rising from all fours to an erect posture, which changes the form of the spinal column and of the skull base. The trend toward a broader and shorter skull...