Word: robins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen commonplace-seeming men waited simultaneously one morning last week in the several London offices of the world's principal news agencies. Their cards betokened them representatives of an advertising firm. When they were admitted, they laid before thunderstruck news executives a round robin signed by over 100 of the world's most potent financiers, calling upon European nations to remove their tariff hindrances to international trade...
...Round Robin was entitled: A Plea for the Removal of Restrictions upon European Trade...
...preliminary tournament of the Harvard Chess Club is now going on at the Union, with 21 entrants playing a round-robin series to determine the team's makeup...
Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...
England's gypsy tribes, many of them, are unusual in this respect: unlike the nomadic folk of other countries they are not Romanies* but Englishmen. During famines and plagues and-as in the legendary case of Robin and his merrie men-during political upheavals, poor townsfolk or villagers have taken to the open road, the woods and the fields to scrape, beg or poach a living as best they can. England's winters are not severe enough to have killed them off. One generation of nomads has spawned another; continued poverty has bred shiftlessness; until today...