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Word: round (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Professional Palsy | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Modesty Essential in Pugilist, Maloney Finds--South Boston's Favorite Son Can't See How Gene Can Escape Him | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Centuries Ago University-Owned Ferries Carried Students to Boston--Omnibuses Later Were Transporters | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

Then you'll see us going round...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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