Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proposal No. 2. The American counterproposal was for cancelation of about $200,000,000 of accrued interest, bringing the French Debt down to something like a round $4,000,000,000. Interest was to begin at ½% and increase¼% each year until the 13th year, when it would reach 3½%, the remainder of the principal to be paid off with that rate of interest over a period of about 62 years...
...optical office on the second floor above the drug store that is the social centre of Niles, Mich., Harry Wills, onetime stevedore, leaned his black bulk against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened...
...their heads out of doors and shook them emphatically. For the third day rain was falling. Ducks and drakes was the only game you could play on that course. Next day, though cloudy, was better. The sun and the gallery came doubtfully out. At the end of the morning round Miss Collett was four up. She played the first ten holes in the afternoon in even fours. On the tenth green, when that last putt scuttled out of sight like a round, obedient white mouse, the match ended and out of her eternal preoccupation, Miss Collett smiled vaguely...
...first day's play for the University Doubles Championship finds most of the first round matches completed. Three teams, among them the second seeded combination of Alden Briggs IG.B. and G. N. Perkins '26, reached the third round...
Play continued to progress in the singles tournament, 13 of the third-round matches being completed by last night. While all the seeded players advanced, the number of three-set matches indicate that the competition is steadily increasing...