Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all this rumpus had proceeded unchecked for several days, General Charteris at length spoke. To reporters who crowded round him as he was about to set sail for Glasgow, aboard the liner Transylvania, he delivered himself warmly as follows: "Mv speech was made at a private dinner at which the toastmaster began his remarks with the statement that no reporters were present. ... It was not necessary for us to spread false propaganda, as sufficient false propaganda was being spread from other sources to offset any which was spread for a good purpose . . . My whole idea in speaking...
Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland...
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...
...will go where there is iron, they could gain on the beast by taking a cut of a mile along the railroad tracks. They had ridden into a deep culvert with sides too steep for the horses to vault when suddenly the rails began to tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they could. To do this was not difficult. They had only to dismount and look the other...
...Union Tournament G. H. Perkins '26, showing a marked reversal from the form displayed in his match with Gordon in the University competition, advanced to the finals with a decisive win over G. D. Debevoise '26, in the round before the semi-finals, and a hard won victory over J. C. Rueter '28, captain of last year's Freshman team...