Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marchers' place and bear grizzled veterans with the easy pomp of conquerors. But for the nonce the illusion of youth's vigor still lingers. The "soldiers" of Grand National Commander Louis Arensberg (also "Dr. Arensberg") of Uniontown, Pa., have responded to their leader's call, and have come together 'round his standard without help from any upstart impertinent enough to have fought for liberty later than Gettysburg...
...committee served one glorious purpose. To John L. Lewis, round-faced round-bodied President of the United Mine Workers, the committee furnished a respectful audience for one of the greatest oratorical masterpieces of his career...
Pictures, both motion and still, showed the Maude 15 or 20 feet out of water, hanging on ice-hummocks listing 40 after mighty movements of the pack. Stoutly girded, round-bottomed as a watermelon, armored with wooden walls a yard thick, the Maude had slid or crashed back to the water again without mishap every time, though on some occasions blasting powder was required for the relaunching...
...That I might not be accused of speaking from mere hearsay, I selected some well-posted young men to accompany me, and went incognito upon a round of investigation of the dance halls...
...record of 44:45 and 82 for 18 holes which he challenges other golfers to beat. He traveled a distance of four miles. The amount of his wager was $25. The two, thinking with a twinge of melancholy of the three hours they had spent in their morning round, moved their old shanks, somewhat pathetically, into the clubhouse...