Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to reports, there was one long round of festivities? athletics for the gobs, fêtes for the officers, culminating on July 4 with a ball given by the U. S. Minister to Denmark, John D. Prince...
Although M. Theunis has obviously swung round to the British, he is nevertheless anxious to prevent a break with France; but the fact that the Ruhr occupation is hitting Belgian industry very hard makes it imperative for the Premier to seek an early solution of the present tangle...
...stage of 164,514 ballots, the straw vote taken by Collier's Weekly for Presidential preferences, showed the following results in round numbers...
...later Siki fouled Morelle, middleweight champion of France, in the sixth round of a fight in Paris. When Morelle went down Siki was so ignorant of the ethics of his profession that he began bowing to the crowd under the impression that he had scored a clean knockout. It took the referee some time to convince him that the foul blow had ended the fight-in Morelle's favor...
Pancho Villa of the Island of Panay in the Philippines became flyweight boxing champion of the world by knocking out Jimmy Wilde, Britisher, in New York (in the seventh round). Next day Wilde was spoken of in the public prints as " the bravest little man who ever held a ring title...