Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegates left this enormous detail to be settled in good time, embarked at once on a round of cocktail parties, formal dinners, golf-matches, swimming (behind the shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...personal adventure and romance, continued to come from under, on and over the sea. Submarines and their adversaries, rather than soldiers fighting soldiers or planes fighting planes provided the best stories. And apropos a submarine, versatile, witty Winston Churchill fired the first shot of war humor to echo round the world...
...WORLD Is ROUND-Gertrude Stem -William R. Scott...
...write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...
American turkey-growers are starting a drive to popularize the red-wattled bird as a year-round food, Frank G. Chambers reports in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review...