Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easterners in (say) Santa Fe, N. Mex., putting down a five-dollar bill for a pack of cigarets are likely to receive four large round silver dollars in their change. No animus is intended-Southwesterners are used to the silver dollars-solid, tangible, clanking evidence of wealth. A man with ten silver dollars weighting down his pockets may always be pleasantly conscious of his solvency. But Easterners and the U. S. public in general have not taken kindly to the silver dollars which are deemed cumbersome, termed "cartwheels,"' given with apology, received with reluctance...
...with "inexpensive (and expensive) articles to be distributed as prizes." (Rotarians love to play games.) "Among other things sent in," announced The Rotarian (official monthly), "was a topcoat, rather a useful thing to have on an Atlantic trip. Sometimes the evenings are a bit cool and the regular constitutional round the decks has to be a brisk...
...Preparatory School tied for second place with 8 Andover trailed with 6. This marks the second successive year that Exeter has won the team title, and that Columbia Grammar has claimed the individual winner. Last year Julius Seligsen took the laurels, after defeating Shields in the semi-final round...
...couple of Bostonians were thwacking each other at the Yankee Stadium in New York last week, thereby enabling Promoter Tex Rickard to collect some $250,000 from 40,000 spectators. They did not do any serious mangling until the fourth round when 192-pound Bostonese-Lithuanian Josef Paul Cukoschay, whose battling name is "Jack Sharkey," knocked down 202½-pound Bostonese-Irishman Edward James Maloney. There were 52 seconds in the fifth round, during which Maloney twice found himself prostrated on the canvas. The second time he did not rise unaided; so the referee ruled that Cukoschay...
Miss Virginia Wilson of Chicago, the only really proficient U. S. player present, was eliminated in the third round. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, strapping 19-year-old, who belongs in France but spends much time in the moist islands, took the championship away from Miss Dorothy Pearson of Tunbridge Wells, thus depriving England of her sole remaining British title...