Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen commonplace-seeming men waited simultaneously one morning last week in the several London offices of the world's principal news agencies. Their cards betokened them representatives of an advertising firm. When they were admitted, they laid before thunderstruck news executives a round robin signed by over 100 of the world's most potent financiers, calling upon European nations to remove their tariff hindrances to international trade...
Flurry. Who drafted this unprecedented document? Its purveyors refused to say. The hundred odd famed signatures made it white-hot news. Fearful of lagging behind, the great news agencies tarried not to investigate but broadcast this roundest of round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom...
...strong showing of Appleton and Rueter has been the surprise of the doubles tournament. Their playing up to the final round has been unusually strong and they lived up to expectations yesterday by forcing a veteran team to a close match...
Alan Cobham, flyer: "When I returned to England from my 28,000-mile round trip flight to Australia I remarked, 'Aviation will make Australia [TIME, Oct. 11]. . . .In Australia it is possible to fly 365 days a year.' Now comes the Rev. Mr. C. Daniels-once a pilot in the Royal Air Force -whose parish in New South Wales is as extensive as all England, with a request that the Anglican Church Missionary Society buy him a plane to expedite his parish visits. His motor car too frequently stalls in mud. His camel is painfully slow. The Society...
...force of habit; he has long been famed in the ring for his sharp practices, as also for his tireless pursuit of a match with Dempsey. But old black Wills will pursue no more heavyweight champions; he was tired; even his foulest punches had no sting. In the 13th round, after ten warnings the referee disqualified him for fouling...