Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Andre Maurois, cosmopolite, suave veteran of literary teas, facile biographer (Ariel, la vie de Shelley) returned to Paris from a round-the-world tour on behalf of the Alliance Française, international society to promote French culture. At the 21st birthday dinner of the Alliance Française Biographer Maurois who prides himself on his fluent, accentless English reported to his employers on the spread of the French language abroad. "I rejoice," said he, "that England is a country where real progress is being made in the study of correct, modern French. In Canada they speak French...
Horween has been invited to discuss the 1929 football team; and to round out the program, moving pictures of last Saturday's game with the Army will be exhibited...
Facts are now out for most of the first round arguments. The following clubs will meet in the early competitions: Beal vs. Morgan; Bracton vs. Van Devanter; Bryce vs. Taft; Burke vs. Sayre; Cardozo vs. Powell; Chafee vs. Sanford; Choate Parsons vs. Coke; G. Gray vs. Root; Hudson vs. Sayre; Kent vs. Williston; Lowell vs. Thayer-Holmes; Marshall vs. Scott; Plumer vs. Pound; Pollock vs. Warren; Reading vs. Sutherland; J. Smith vs. Story...
...round title bout between Mickey Walker, world's middleweight champion, and Ace Hudkins of Nebraska, at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles...
...Blind enthusiasts for the past can only remind us of that group of grey-bearded New Englanders who, we are told, had gathered about the stove in the little post office at the crossroads, and were bemoaning the regrettable changes and universal degeneration round about them. 'Even Deacon Jones,' added the postmaster, 'isn't the man he used to be.' The approving squire summed it all up when he concluded sadly, 'No, and he never was.' So it is with the college undergraduate. It is true that in many respects...