Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...H.Y.P.D. meet, as it is called, is played round-robin fashion. With four men on each of four challenging groups, the individual players contest against each other until all colleges have...
...general manufacturers' sales tax such as now proposed by the President was rejected by the House decisively last spring, and blocked by a Senate round-robin. A $6 per bbl. tax on real beer, as advanced by the Wets for the present session, and as ignored by the President in his message, would produce approximately as much budget-balancing revenue as the loudly hated general sales...
MILNE (A.A.) The Christopher Robin Story Books. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard...
...American Field Hockey team named last week after a three-day round-robin tournament of the best players in the U. S. at Greenwich. Conn...
Self-Help. Over Los Angeles Pilot Paul Munro, flying solo, set the controls of his Curtiss Robin, crawled aft in the cabin, seized a fuel hose dangling from a : nurse ship. He helped himself to 132 gal. of gasoline, returned to his cockpit, flew on. Seven times Pilot Munro repeated the performance, landed only 43 min. short of a new (38 hr.) solo duration record because of a long-distance quarrel with the nurse pilot...