Word: round-robin
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...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...
...policy, my dear bishop, is that of force and the letter; the league's policy is that of fellowship in the bonds of love." Thirteen Episcopal members of the league (two of them clergymen of Bishop Manning's diocese and subject to his ecclesiastical authority) signed a round-robin letter, protesting against the bishop's "usurpation of authority under the guise of interpreting the canon law," attacking his indulgence of high-church canon-law-breakers...
William Tatem Tilden II, tennis tycoon, conducted a round-robin tournament with a group of youngsters at Augusta, Ga. For the first time in many a year there were sweating battles to determine who should be members of the U. S. Davis Cup team. The following were picked last week to play in the first match against Mexico...
John Hennessey, 27, a Tennessee inhabitant of Indianapolis, who was the only one to lose no matches in the round-robin...
...other point upon which college debating stands indicted in the mind of Doctor Mangun is the reversal of positions that each team must take in such a round-robin as the Harvard-Yale Princeton triangular debates. He quotes the damning evidence of the yellowed newspaper clipping. "Following their victory over the Yale affirmative the Harvard men demonstrated their versatility 'by taking the opposite side against Princeton and again winning the judges' decision...