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Word: roundabout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toward daybreak the gunmen took a grumpy departure. One of the prisoners had wriggled free, released his companions, spread the alarm. Police, detectives, Naval officials hastened to the scene. Roundabout the safe room were strewn nitroglycerine cans, percussion caps, crowbars, electric drills, gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

From Paris came roundabout word that Boston Symphony trustees have extended Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's contract indefinitely. The salary, it is said, "exceeds all expectations." Presumably it elevates Conductor Koussevitzky to a financial status comparable with that of Arturo Toscanini (New York Philharmonic Symphony) and Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski (Philadelphia Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...chain-papers excused Nominee Hoover on the ground that "there seems to be something about political campaigning that just naturally breeds circumlocution. The roundabout instinct gets into the blood." They cited Nominee Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: P. 5., P. P. S. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: Some Early Autumn Novels | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Over the fields a stranger approached. She shaded her eyes with a hand and saw that he wore a black frock coat. His walk was diffident as well as awkward. She waited for him to come close. And her eyes widened as the ill forecast of his roundabout phrases became intelligible. Her brother, the great, the famed, the honorable, the revered Dr. Hideyo Noguchi was dead. She put her hands to her face and cried. Her spade fell over into the clods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Igakuhakushi | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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