Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over Jones's home course at the East Lake Country Club, they whacked their troubled way, eyes wandering from purse to Jones and back to purse again. For his first round the modest amateur took a conservative 72; the professionals were relieved momentarily. Then word spread over the feverish battleground that Jones had again gone mad, achieved a shocking 66; professional Adam's apples twitched nervously, professional eyes bulged, professional shots began to find horrible, score-mounting hazards...
James Maloney, one of South Boston's two contenders for champion Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown, found time between a series of strenuous three-round exhibition bouts at Loew's Orpheum Theatre, to divulge the innermost workings of the prizefighters' mind to a CRIMSON reporter...
...thresher shark gets his name from his great tail with which he threshes the water to round up the fish on which he lives. Also called fox shark...
...when Cambridge was only a pleasant village lying between the University and the river and Boston was merely a thriving town, students and citizens of Cambridge were wont to use the Charlestown Ferry, or for variety's sake, they journeyed on the more round-about way of "Roxbury Neck." The ferry belonged to the college by a grant from the General Court and brought in to the University every year an income of about 500 pounds in New England currency, or 50 pounds sterling, a considerable sum according to the standards of the time...
Then you'll see us going round...