Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...
...first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist in a small school orchestra. He was the round-shouldered fellow teaching in his father's parish school to dodge military service. He was the awkward, pasty-faced composer drifting about the city with never enough money to buy his own music paper...
...Seventh Act. Nina gathers round her three men: her husband, her lover, and her faithful friend and adviser Charles Marsden, a ladylike novelist who yearns after her throughout the play. Evans is rich, Darrell a failure. The small son finds Darrell kissing Nina. She sends Darrell to the West Indies...
...championship aggregation. The score of the match, which went to five games before a decision was reached, is an indication of how closely each point was contested. It is as follows: 13-15, 18-15, 6-15, 16-14, 15-7. The triumph places Rawlins in the final round of the tournament. The victor is one of the best players whom Coach H.L. Cowles has produced in the last few years, and already holds the Metropolitan championship of New York by virtue of a victory over Tevis Huhn, star of the Princeton Club of New York...
...rules of the Ames Competition it is at present contemplated by the Board of Advisers to be put into effect next year, namely, that the results of the first-year Inter-Club arguments shall be used to resolve any ties among the winning clubs in the qualifying round...