Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed but seldom realized summum bonum of college life, intellectual inspiration...
...Union tennis tournament started last Monday with 95 entrants, 20 more than last year. The first round matches in both singles and doubles are to be played off by tonight under penalty of default. The draws have been posted at the Union and at Harry Cowles's Squash Shop, at 85 Mt. Auburn Street...
...first to seize and wring the hands of the tan-faced heroes who soon came ashore from the seaplane and up the Speaker's steps-Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare congratulating Pilot Alan Cobham and a mechanic- upon completing an epic of British aviation, a 28,000-mile round trip to farthest Australia (Melbourne) in an all-British De Havilland. There was a polite telegram from King George...
...often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels...
...preliminary tournament of the Harvard Chess Club is now going on at the Union, with 21 entrants playing a round-robin series to determine the team's makeup...