Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators in the Senate 65 are lawyers and former judges, as are also 300 of the 435 Congressmen. In round figures two-thirds of both Houses of Congress are lawyers, and it is perfectly safe to say that among these 350 odd lawyers and judges in the two branches of Congress there are many better lawyers or at least as good lawyers as are now on the Supreme Bench of the nation. . . . Yes, it would be safe to say that there are more good lawyers in the House and Senate today than have sat on the Supreme Bench...
...Morgan of West Virginia. "The big man laughed all over, dislodging two heavy wisps of white hair, which he kept pushing straight back from his round young face. During the days I spent with Governor Morgan at Charlestown, in his office and in his home, he never got those two wisps to stay where he put them. They represent, I should say, the two most worrisome problems of his otherwise unruffled life...
...Story. A mighty man, this Richard Hogarth, farmer, with brown skin, round brow, moles on his cheek, lips "negroid in their thick pout," eyes brown, bloodshot, "imperially large...
...welterweight champion, began to ram his fists against the body and flaming head of Bobby Barrett, challenger. After swinging heavily with his right once or twice, Barrett sank to the floor before Walker's battering. Staggering up, he fell again and again-five times in the first round, Walker tearing in with Dempsey-like speed and solidity whenever unlucky Barrett achieved a perpendicular posture. Gritty Barrett retained consciousness until the sixth round. Then, after grovelling for the count of nine, he dragged himself erect a final time, only to behold Walker racing toward him, muscles bunched, face...
...defeating P. C. Kunkel 1L, in four sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0, 6-4, Alden Briggs '25 yesterday won the right to meet T. Y. Harada 1Sp., Champion of Japan, in the final round of the University Singles Tournament on Tuesday...