Word: go-round
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...steps and into University Hall for their admission's interview. Ah, if we knew then what we think we know now. So many schemes come to mind on how to beat the interview system; that is, assuming we would really want to get into Harvard if we had another go-round...
...does not relish the prospect of a third go-round. Bradley's big hope was that the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command would jettison the Brotherhood, call off the election demand, and take the I.L.A. to its breast. But first he had to convince Meany that his orphaned group measured up to the readmission standards that had been set for it three years ago, e.g., that it had purged itself "of all semblance of crime, dishonesty and racketeering," and had established "democratic ideals...
Pounding Hooves. By the last performance ("go-round" in cowboy lingo), the contestants' gaudy shirts were in tatters, the carefully creased broad-brimmed hats had been mashed and shredded by pounding hooves, and the embroidered boots were mud-splattered. But the show was a rousing success...
...like ex-Congressman Ham Fish ('10), sometime All-America tackle, Bill Bingham last week announced his personal ideas about the course Harvard football should take: no more intersectional games, no more games outside the Ivy League. Cracked Chicago's Hutchins, in a quick recall of the Galahad go-round of ten years ago: "I'm glad to notice the cardiac changes in Mr. Bingham...
...House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill providing money for pensions and government salaries in the form the Administration wanted it. But the Senate, where no gag rule prevails, upset everything by voting back the Federal pay cuts and practically all the pension cuts. The House on a second go-round restored two-thirds of the Federal pay cut, and 75% of their former pensions to "presumptives." The bill as passed did not quite wipe out the savings of the 1933 Economy Act, but it did wipe out the principle of executive control of pensions and salaries...