Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Errors in the article "Last Dollar" under Business in the issue of Dec. 13, simply must be corrected. Referring to lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette...
...Doheny and his family went home to Los Angeles, Calif., to gather round their Christmas tree. All criminal charges against the oil man and his son will probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial...
After three months of preliminary debates in the Ames competition for second year Harvard Law School. Clubs, eight clubs survive who will clash in the semi-final round during the second week of February. These debates take the form of actual trials and serve to give the men practical experience in handling cases...
...four clubs surviving this round will enter the final competition to be held next year...
First, there is the physical satisfaction. That is why they have personally done as much as possible of the actual work. Compare it with other sports, and the physical effort is surprising. Contrast a round of golf in foot-pounds of work, or a set of tennis in the lung power required with climbing a mountain under a forty-pound pack; compare chopping one big cross-log with the strokes of nine holes: and you will see why a seasoned tramper and axeman will "kill" a college athlete at this game...