Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical swashbuckling round of good deeds and derring...
...dilly of a will to prove both points of pride. Not counting 235 bottles of scotch, 165 bottles of champagne, 15 gallons of pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres "one of the most remarkable documents of our time...
Died. Dr. Juan Negrin, 64, round-faced socialist and University of Madrid physiologist, who became Loyalist Spain's last premier (May, 1937) ten months after the Spanish Civil War broke out, for two years led the crumbling republic's fight against Franco's Axis-backed forces; of a heart attack; in Paris. Left-winger Negrin got aid from Russia, later was charged by onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto with having smuggled $566 million in Loyalist bullion to Russia while finance minister...
FIRST NORTH-POLE FLIGHTS from Europe to Asia will start in February, cut 10,300-mile Stockholm-Tokyo hop to 8,000 miles, trim flying time from about 49 hours to 31 hours. Scandinavian Airlines System, which pioneered polar route between-Copenhagen and California, will fly two Far East round trips weekly over pole, make refueling stop at Anchorage...
...baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid as Mother Earth, took charge of the situation. The child was crying. Brother Thomas dipped a cloth in water and gave it to him to suck. The crying stopped. Everybody began to smile. A young monk turned to the Father Superior with a pleading look. "C-can we keep him. Father...