Word: close
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survivors of the Annual Fall Tennis Tournament go into the closing rounds, there have been but few notable upsets. Although several of the seeded players have been forced to default, the only one to be defeated was K. B. Daggett '30, who was put out by J. K. Peterson, 1L, in the fourth round. Another close match was that in which J. M. Barnaby '32, winner of last year's Class B tournament, defeated D. T. Field '31 in two tight sets...
...Music Building. The importance of the managerial post cannot be over-emphasized, for the entire business end of the Glee Club, which is decidedly a business concern, is in charge of the manager. The winner of the competition starting tonight will become assistant manager directly upon the close of the competition...
...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...
...anniversary of the death of Lenin; May 1, international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices will close, that though Russian workmen labor on a four-day shift, Russian industry operates on a continuous seven-day schedule...
...points for being the most aggressive, for landing the cleanest punches. In Hartford little Christopher Battalino, local boy with black curly hair, scored 75 points to 56 and won the world's featherweight championship from Windmill André Routis by holding Routis' whirling arms when he got close and hitting him when he backed away...