Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty-six men responded Wednesday to the initial call for entrants in the University handball tournament, which is now being played off at the Hemenway Gymnasium. All matches in the first round, which is now well under way, must be completed by Monday, or be defaulted...
...meantime, the Freshman doubles tournament has progressed to the third round, and only six teams now remain in the competition...
...books for the putrid minded" is precisely the same in the eyes of Mr. Sterling as a dealer who sells typhus-filled milk. Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education...
...Pool '28 advanced to the final round of the State Individual Amateur Squash Championship tournament yesterday when he defeated William Howe of the Cambridge Squash Racquet Club, 3-1 at the Boston Athletic Association...
...flock of strange, crested birds flapped jerkily, like tired oarsmen, westward from England to the Newfoundland Coast. They dropped to land, some to die immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength...