Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immense throng of people gathered round the Duke of York at Richmond, where he had gone to open a public golf course by driving the first ball. To caddies, the Duke said: "I'll give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies...
Official circles in Berlin intimated that Germany will not reply to the arms note sent by the Allies (TIME, June 15) until after a round-table conference between Germans and the Military Control Commission has been held. The conference was scheduled for this week...
...Round and round the track for eight days roared the automobiles. Sixteen broke down, but Prince Carol was one of the seven that finished. So fast had been the race that the Rumanian judge "was unable to decide who had won." It was said that the Prince had a good chance of being declared the winner...
...Ingraham '25, captain of the University tennis team, won his way to the fifth round of the Massachusetts State tournament yesterday by defeating W. I. Badger Jr. L. '16 in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. The only other members of the Crimson in the tournament was eliminated yesterday when Alden Briggs '25, after winning from T. O. Kingsbury 6-3, 6-2 in his second round match, bowed to R. A. Bidwell '99 in a close battle...
...implication was patent. At the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, the referee, bending above Pugilist Tom Gibbons, had looked with shrewd and not unkindly eyes at his split mouth, puffed face, smashed nose, blotchy body, put a question to him. In 30 seconds more, the bell would start the twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They saw Gibbons shake his head. The bell...