Word: round-robin
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...wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...
...tournament was run in round-robin style, every entry dueling each of the others once...
...best world tournament performance to date, the U.S. nationals crushed East Germany last Friday, 9 to 2, to clinch a spot in the six-team, round-robin finals. Captain Bill Cleary, his brother, and Owen all scored for the Americans. The three ex-Crimson aces have been less effective since then, as the U.S. teams has absorbed two straight lickings by the Russians...
...presidents of the Big Three--the phrase had been coined beccause of football domination--in 1951 issued a statement known as the "Ivy Group Agreement." In this, it was agreed to abolish football clinics, spring practice, and post-season games; to set up a round-robin with schools in the Ivy League; and to reduce the length of the season...
...form the bank will take will be hammered out around conference tables, probably at the get-together this fall of the "Committee of 21'' suggested by Kubitschek last week in a round-robin note to all the Hemisphere nations. Said Roy Rubottom. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs: "The need is urgent, the desire is widespread, and we'll go ahead on a rapid schedule...