Word: round
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grips with the discovery of electricity. In all but the newest buildings, electrical equipment and wiring run to as many different types and sizes as the fanciful British mind could devise. There are fused plugs and unfused plugs, plugs with two prongs and plugs with three prongs, with round prongs and square prongs. There are plugs the size of kumquats, walnuts, pingpong balls and lemons. Some appliances have three-strand wire, some two. The voltage may be either 210, 220 or 240-or in a few areas, 110. When an American visitor tries to use a transformer to make...
...close first round, Larry Johnson and Michael Woolf won the team's lone foil and sabre bouts, and Bruce Parker and David Schwartz won in epee. Then N.Y.U. exploded for 16 consecutive wins before Parker and Schwartz upset N.Y.U.'s first two epee men to achieve the Crimson's only respectable showing...
...Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which...
...share in the horse. Jockey Eddie Arcaro politely declined the chance to ride him. But here and there, Hillsdale, a handsome horse of undistinguished bloodlines, began to win. Since September the big colt has not been beaten, has whipped such headliners as Jewel's Reward and Round Table. In all, Smitty's $25,000 horse has won him a tidy...
...approach accuracy and, above all, they are many times removed from "the real thing." So, whether from a sense of the genuine or just a sense of possession, (which has always played a part in art collecting) the annual Christmas Show institution of the galleries has become a year round affair. Where paintings are often beyond limits, lithographs, etchings and sometimes even drawing, provide a happy compromise...