Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack leads with a long left and misses . . . boxing quietly . . . this round is just a little feinting between the two boys...
...with a stroke score of 96, failing to qualify, losing her chance to defend the national golf championship which she won last year. Ada Mackenzie, Canadian, broke the women's record for the Cherry Valley course at Garden City, L. I., with a 77 to win the qualifying round. In the second round Mrs. W. G. Fraser, Canadian, defeated Glenna Collett, twice national champion, 2 and 1. Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when...
...loose ball from any posture and land with the obloid caged by arms, stomach, legs. Thus are fumbles retrieved in football games; thus are fumbles, unexpected flukes of fortune, re covered. Many football games have been won by fumbles promptly pounced upon. Since a football is not round, but bounces drunkenly, the proper pounce requires flashing speed, intuitive judgment, and tire less practice...
...Round and round the vinegar jug The monkey chased the weasel; The monkey stopped to blow...
Worms. In Philadelphia, a gravedigger was busy making a house for a dead man. From the four brown walls of this house, little red worms leaned out, their slim questioning bodies bowing and writhing from round tunnels, like windows or portholes, as they sensed their purveyor working. He, "Joe" (last name unspecified in despatches), struck at one of the worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave...