Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Round Table begins an article on Luther as follows : "Four hundred years ago tonight, the angels were bearing to earth a sweet and beautiful soul...
Hanlan, the oarsman, proposes to live in Boston after his journey round the world...
...balls, one at ten balls from the Bogardus trap, and one at ten balls from the rotary trap. A match will also be shot at 10 clay pigeons. If the shoot is postponed by bad weather, due notice will be given on the bulletin board on University. Fare for round trip 25 cents; balls two cents apiece; pigeons 3 cents...
...with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton man seized him, and, after slinging him round and round two or three times, threw him away in a disgusted manner. He landed about on the point of his right ear and two Princeton men jumped on him. He yelled "down!" Every one knew he was down; there was not any doubt about that. Then they...
...George went off with the lead, Snook rushing to the front before they had got half-way round the first lap. A couple of yards divided them as they ran into the straight, when George spurted and again got the lead, this being the order until the finish, something like three and four yards separating the pair. As they neared the straight for the last time, however, George had increased the lead to five yards, and, although Snook struggled gamely, and at one time managed to get within a yard or so of the leader, George immediately went away again...