Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene, not knowing beforehand whether to attribute the subsidence to dissolving limestone strata over subterranean caverns, or to some extinct volcano's clearing its throat and swallowing. When Geologist G. S. Lambert arrived, the volcano theory was discarded. He called attention to the nature of a round lake some six miles away, called Old Maid's Pool. From its formation, it had evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble in water. He pointed...
...Round and round they went; McNamara took the lead, held it for hours. Then, out of a jam of swirling pedals, Coburn and Petri flashed, lapped the field, replaced McNamara. The semihysterical incidents that accompany all endurance contests began to crop up. Three riders were arrested, charged with being "public nuisances." They hurried to court, while their partners kept their places in the flying scrum. A magistrate quite properly dismissed the case...
...Brown, M. I. T. and Tufts will try to take from the University seconds the title they won last year. The bouts will take place at the same time as the University struggles on Friday and Saturday nights. The first string men will have to wrestle the semi-final round on Saturday afternoon...
...Alliance since 1921, of the Federal Council of Churches since 1922, member of the Minnesota State Board of Parole since 1915. Honors sit comfortably on his broad brow topped by his wavy grey hair. Fellows at the conference looked at him, saw a well-groomed personage, a man of round and cheery face. Those little wrinkles peeping behind his rimless eyeglasses were of good humor and of study, not of irascibility...
...this was in the fall of 1924. Dr. William L. Bettison, instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the University of Michigan Medical School, treated the young men, brought them round. Last week his onetime patients could read in the Journal of the American Medical Association what he already had told them...