Word: rounded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Indian Round Table Conference, momentously opened by George V (TIME, Nov. 24), passionately addressed by Princes et al (TIME, Dec. 1), settled down to a quiet week of organizing committees which will sit in secret...
...Australia and Canberra, steamed in line of battle, decks cleared for action. Gunnery officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing...
Shouting these and many another slogan the people crowded round and edged as near as they dared to what in Tsarist times was the Nobles' Club, containing one of the most sumptuous ballrooms in all Russia, the famed "Hall of Columns." Red soldiers in their peaked caps kept the people back. Only those with tickets (all the New Yorkers had them) were admitted to the dazzling show: a session of the Supreme Tribunal of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first to be trying very hard. In the eighth round the referee warned him for hitting low, but by that time Paulino was bleeding from the mouth and right eye. When the decision was properly given to Camera, the crowd, not knowing much about fighting, but liking Paulino for his nerve and nationality, booed heartily...
...Over the round, bald head of Sportswriter Grantland Rice hovers the crown of All-American arbiter that was worn by the late great Walter Camp. But other U. S. sportswriters did not wait to hear the selections over which he was mulling for Collier's magazine last week in Chicago. They chose their own 1930 All-American football teams. Their consensus was as follows...