Word: robin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen men at present compose Coach Cowles' tentative squad. Elimination matches have been schedule between the members whose positions seem least sure, and they will play a round-robin affair to decide the future make-up of the squad...
...from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like the ale in his cup. Or fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer...
...Walter Guinness, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, replying to a question, said he had no information, other than had appeared in the press, concerning the "round robin" which the U. S. Government had sent to its foreign debtors. Mr. Guinness made it clear, however, that Britain would expect payments to the U. S. by her debtors to be accompanied pari passu (simultaneously and equally) by payment to Britain...
...crumbling face and derelict eyes; "After" was the apotheosis of dapper, life-conquering assurance. At the Yankee Stadium, New York City, last week, Paavo Nurmi reversed the parable which has long been so excellently illustrated in the contrasting personalities of Before, of After. He appeared in his sweater of robin's-egg blue to run against Alan Helffrich in the half-mile special of the Finnish-American...
...Peter Schuyler, Rob ert Burns, (Daniel) Webster,f (Vitus) Bering (discoverer of the Straits), ‡ William Penn, Raphael, Duke of Savoy, Flor de Spencer, Hanan Bros. (Shoe People), Tom Wilson, Lady Churchill, Captain Marryat. More than 15 cents: Henry Clay, Manuel Garcia. Cigars named after fictional persons: Monte Cristo, Robin Hood...