Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future experiments, Averill & Co. hope to determine the survival rate of sheep ova in their early development, devise a technique for shipping eggs from the best breeds of sheep in "incubator" rabbits round the world to help sheep growers build new and better flocks...
Wrote Editor Deshais: "Some of the society women of Chicago are drinking themselves silly. 'Round the clock they go, lapping it up from high noon till they reach another high at midnight. By their own admission some of them are consuming from twelve to 20 ounces a day ... I love society and I don't like to think there are any lady lushes in society. [But] some women who lead brisk social lives can consume . . . nearly a gallon a week...
...Submarines. The desert influx got its first big push with World War II. The military services and aircraft industry, seeking space for maneuvers and testing, as well as the desert's clear, dry weather and year-round sunshine, were the first to move out in expansive style. They sank hundreds of wells, established mushrooming service installations: Edwards and George Air Force Bases in the Mojave, the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station near Inyokern, the Army's Camp Irwin at Barstow, Marine Corps depots and bases at Mojave, Barstow and Twenty-nine Palms, and other big bases...
...Brussels, some 500 delegates to the Assembly of World Brotherhood sat through five days of speeches without either a hint of dispute or a healthy round of applause. Few speakers succeeded in rising above the grimly mirthless atmosphere of the occasion. Belgium's Foreign Affairs Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, famed as an extemporaneous orator, armed himself with a copy of an old speech, liberally quoted himself, explained that he couldn't express his sentiments any better than he did five years...
...another puff of inflation? Last week, as a scattering of price increases showed up in the wake of the steel price increase two weeks ago, many a businessman feared that it was. Philco Corp. warned that high raw material and increased labor costs "are contributing to another round of higher production costs." Youngstown Kitchens announced a10¼% boost in factory prices. Dun & Bradstreet, which asked 1,104 businessmen what they intend to do about prices in the last quarter of this year, reported that 26% said they expected to raise them (in April, in answer to a similar question...