Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, not too different from Vienna." On Manhattan's lack of "dream department stores": "The shops there are so much more like European shops than I had expected. They are cozy and untidy, and even deal in antiques." Having heard that U.S. life was a mad merry-go-round, Lady Caccia was agreeably surprised: "I don't find...
...much as anyone to raise meteorology to its present high estate is a likable, high-spirited, round-faced Swede named Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby. Most leaders of modern meteorology are friends or past pupils of Dr. Rossby's. The "Rossby parameter" is important in up-to-date forecasting, and the grandest movements of the atmosphere are called the "Rossby waves." The history of modern meteorology is inescapably paralleled by Rossby's career...
...third year as number-one singles, he is playing better than ever. He is currently ranked number seven in the United States and is the Intercollegiate Champion. Only Diehl Mateer and Henri Salaun can be expected to beat him in national competition, and recently in the Ticknor-Glidden Round-Robin, Heckscher had a 2-0, 9-2 lead on Salaun, before the ex-national champion could rally to a victory...
...launch "a fund-raising campaign for the contraction of Harvard University" with the desired quota set at a round 100,000 dollars, with the stipulation that if this fund reaches its quota before that of President Pusey, it shall be declared the winner and applied as the Society has seen fit, that...
...next door is less sympathetic. "Am I losing my charge," he wonders aloud, after she holds him at arm's length, "to be turned down by a creep?" In the language of her contemporaries, she is a square who wants to fit into a world that is round. In the end, after her mother and the boy next door smooth off some of the rough edges, she does. Betty Lou Keim, as the girl, is too convincing a little stinker to generate much pathos, and Ginger Rogers is too vapid a mother to rouse much sympathy. But the acting...