Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quantity of news printed has increased about one-tenth. But this tenth includes a tripling in the volume of foreign news; a round half added to the volume of political news (this must be discounted since this is a Presidential year) ; about two and half times as much crime news; about one and a half times as much business news; about two and a third times as much sport news. The only kind of news which actually fell off in volume was society news, which was cut almost in half...
With the baccalaureate service and sermon by President Lowell next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the schedule of events for Commencement Week will begin. An almost continuous round of events will continue throughout the week closing with the University boat race with Yale at New London...
...team that opposed Yale, will play at Greenwich from June 24 to June 28. The team championship will be decided on 72 holes of medal play, the scores of the four highest men on each team counting. The last 36 holes of this competition, will serve as a qualifying round for the individual tournament...
...eyes staring, on the jaw and he was counted out. After the fight, Danny Frush announced that he would sail to the U. S. and contest the world's featherweight championship with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting for me. . . . Gene Criqui can't bite any more sawdust in front of anyone else. Ex-champions should not try to come back. . . . Frush...
...plan, as fathered by Dean James Edwin Lough of the Extramural Division of New York University, was to take the students and a faculty of 40 on a year's round-the-world cruise, the while they were completing their year of college work...