Word: round
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen play early in the season," Mr. Daly said, "it is hard for me to judge them rightly. However, taking both teams at what I should consider their best, I believe that the Yale Freshmen have a slight advantage over Harvard. I believe that they have a better all-round team. Considering only the individuals on the two teams, it seems to me that the Yale eleven is better...
Most men do not know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...
...came along with a three-sided transparency--on one side of which was a caricature-portrait of Blaine, on the next one, of Cleveland, and on the third, one of Butler; and these were respectively labelled, in the above order, "the World, the Flesh and the Devil!" Round and round the transparency turned...
Nearby are some of the great shrines of American liberty, Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill, the green at Lexington and the site of the bridge at Concord where the Minutemen fired "the shot heard round the world." Massachusetts avenue, between Medford and Lexington, was the route which Paul Revere took on his famous ride of April 19, 1776. It was over the wooden structure which the Anderson bridge has replaced that the British redcoats marched on that same night, and it was in Harvard square that they lost their way and received new directions from a Loyalist tutor of the College...
...unusual and agreeable comedy personality. Her work is careful, natural and is, moreover, never in bad taste, though it realizes each opportunity for laughter. The butler is over-stressed at times, and his make-up shrieks of burlesque. The others of the cast serve admirably to fill in and round out the evening's entertainment...