Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monster dirigibles, larger than the Los Angeles, will be built to fly in four and one-half days from Seville to Buenos Aires-now a 20-day voyage by the fastest ships. Confident, sanguine, Dr. Eckener declared that within three years each dirigible will be making twelve round trips yearly...
...able, not unphilosophical editor of Beau and of the two Two World magazines is one Samuel Roth, 'a foreign looking man, in the late thirties with a round, soft, plump face, irregular mouth and a liking for pink-checked neckties, striped flannel shirts...
...Then an amazing thing happened. Tunney held his terrible arms. The referee parted their shoulders and Tunney, with a right and left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally and swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds later...
Meanwhile, it was discovered that Mr. Edison had eagerly awaited the round-by-round radio account of the Dempsey-Tunney fight. Deaf, he had the reports repeated to him by Mrs. Edison. He explained that radio is all right for prize fights, President's speeches, etc., but not for music...