Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anglo-Russian Treaty: Round condemnation: "Under that treaty, the rightful claims of British subjects are whittled down to an undefined extent, and Parliament is to be asked to commit itself in the eyes of Russia and of the world to the principle of guaranteeing that the British taxpayer shall repay the Bolshevist loan if the Bolsheviki, in accordance with their practice, should fail to repay that loan...
...semi-final round of the University doubles tournament played yesterday afternoon at the Divinity Courts, the favorites, Briggs and Harada, and Wheeler and Davies won their matches, although each encounter went to four sets. Wheeler and Davies met last year's Freshman stars, Gordon and Lenhart, in a preliminary engagement to gain their position in the semi-final bracket...
...Union singles tennis tournament progressed through the first round yesterday afternoon without upsets. Except for Dobevoise, Gordon, and Allen, who will play their matches today, all the seeded players came through without any difficulty...
...King of Cambodia for the price of a most impossible elephant. As the potentate has not even enough credit left to pay off the messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest for the Crown Prince of Siam. Numerous officers and the Crown Prince himself take care of the daughters, and the Regent looks out for the treasure chest and incidentally, the window...
Play in the first round of the singles in the Union Tennis Tournament will start on Jarvis Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock. 84 men have entered the singles. 26 teams have entered the doubles, which will not start until tomorrow...