Word: rounde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent...
...design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio Peak near Pasadena, Calif. The U. S. Geodetic Survey measured the distance between his two instruments, about 22 miles, and assured him that its figure was accurate within one-third of an inch. Playing light from mirror, he timed the 44-mile round trip, calculated the speed of light...
...From it he will exhaust the air, leaving a vacuum. In a vacuum it will not be necessary to make corrections for temperature, pressure and moisture, as it was in the open air. Once more he will set up his mirrors, allow a beam of light to make five round trips through the pipe and time it for the ten-mile trip...
...bands of "Red Front Fighters," as the organized Communists called themselves, made sudden sallies against the police, darting out from grimy alleys, overturning trucks and taxicabs until police bullets exploded the gas tanks of the upended vehicles. Communist girls were observed among the "Red Front Fighters" with red handkerchiefs round their heads, flashing knives in their hands...
...OBTAINED ROUND REFUSAL STOP GENERAL RESOLVED TO SHOW THAT COUNTRY HAS DEVELOPED OTHER MEN TO UNDERTAKE GOVERNMENT...