Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, Battling Siki, Senegalese conqueror of Georges Carpentier and one time holder of the light heavyweight championship of the world, lost a ten-round decision to Jack Taylor, a Senegambian who learned to box by felling cattle with a sledgehammer in the Omaha stockyards...
...stories" for the Hearst press, expressed himself last week as follows: "All this talk around New York that I am afraid to fight Harry Wills is beginning to get on my nerves. . . . Just let me get in the ring with Harry Wills and I'll win in a round or two. They tell me that Wills has a habit of grabbing an opponent around the neck with his left hand and then, as he pulls him in, Harry hooks his right to the body. Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better not try that trick...
...season. Both liberals and conservatives moderated the tone of their utterances or remained silent in consequence, but rumors circulated among the modernists that certain close clerical friends of Bishop Manning were violating the spirit of the truce by sending out circuar letters in an effort to repair fences and round up the Bishop's supporters for a firm stand in the post-holiday battle that is sure to come. Dr. Leighton Parks, veteran insurgent rector of St. Bartholomew's continued as a prime center of interest. He issued in printed form his controversial sermon of the week previous...
...Jerusalem, were discovered by the joint expedition of the London Daily Telegraph and the Palestine Exploration Fund, under Prof. R. A. S. Macalister. The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...
...world. There is enough gas available to keep filled, ready for service, 200 airships of the size of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. In a very few years airships twice the size of the Shenandoah will be built, predicted Dr. Moore. They will carry enough fuel for a round trip to Europe, and a good-sized load of bombs if necessary. Commercial dirigibles will connect North America with Europe, South America, the Far East. A Government plant at Fort Worth is now producing daily 15,000 cubic feet of helium, 92% pure, at a cost of about 7? a cubic foot...