Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unlucky Round No. 13 started off ominously (mnemonic, bifurcation) but was the first perfect round of the day. The next round whittled down the boys' ranks by a whopping six. Melody spelled each word to herself, working up her confidence as, one by one, the others fell...
...Federal Republic of Germany has established 60 special scholarships for U.S. graduate students in gratitude for U.S. postwar help. The scholarships, which include tuition and round-trip travel, may apply to any institution of higher education in West Germany or West Berlin. Prerequisite: a knowledge of German...
...there was one big difference between the Shakespeare Festival last summer and the previous regular, year-round productions. This was the community response. Whereas the regular Theater group had depended largely on the Harvard community for its audience, the Festival depended on the entire Boston area. The pro- ducers even placed one ad in the New York Times because, as Hunt explains, "Many people around here don't read the Boston papers." The response was overwhelming, proving decisively that "people don't necessarily want to see Desert Song in the summer," he feels...
...florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly modern production plant with a horse-and-buggy distribution system. The supermarket will revolutionize our buying habits...
...Round the Clock. A part-time inventor, Shield used the East Paterson store to try out his patented Food-O-Mat, a block of tiered ramps that feed cans and jars to customers by gravity and save up to 40% of floor space. To solve the traffic problem inside his stores, Shield broke the conventional supermarket pattern of long, parallel shelves and narrow aisles. For his new layout he had architects design short, boxy shelves, spot them in irregular arcs to create broad aisles and thereby eliminate bottlenecks for grocery carts...