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Word: roundness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have the benefit of sets. With the new emphasis on harmony and unity, all kinds of wonders could be worked. The Cambridge community must look with favor upon the combined efforts of Schwalb and the H.D.C. As Yeats himself says hopefully, "And what rough beast its hour come round at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leda and the Schwalb | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

...goal of the Council is to "fill the gap between those interested in debating and those who can compete for positions on the Varsity Debate Council." Under the new system, there will be a ten-week round of practice debates in which each House will compete five times. At the end of this period, each house will pick its best team to debate in a final tourney scheduled to take place in the last week of April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Inter-House Debaters' Council Begins Activities | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

Irle explained that "the topics of these preliminary debates won't involve too much research, for many of those participating will not be very experienced." The subject debated in the opening round will be: "Resolved: That the Federal government should compel the state of Alabama to grant equal educational opportunities to Negroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Inter-House Debaters' Council Begins Activities | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

This week Niarchos had his best excuse in years for a party. In the final round of a long-standing dispute with the U.S. Government, he reached a settlement that will enable him to expand some more. Since 1953, the Government had seized 19 of Niarchos' U.S.-built ships, charged in a suit that he had bought them through front corporations specially set up in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 22, 1954), though barred as an alien from buying U.S. war-surplus vessels for American flag operation. Under the final settlement reached last week, Niarchos will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Big N | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 1960 Campaign | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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