Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life. Most people know that he was born in Iowa, son of a Quaker blacksmith; that he is chunky, round-faced, about six feet high, with beaverish shoulders and neck and with greying hair, much thinner and less brushed down than it used to be, and with his teeth chewed down to a peculiar slant on the left side, where he keeps his cigars. This feature repeats his beaverish aspect which is, of course, enhanced most of all by his well-earned reputation for patient industry and again, perhaps, by his familiarity with rivers and dams and husbanding food through...
...tennis teams were eliminated from the National Indoor Mixed Doubles tournament on the Longwood Courts yesterday afternoon. Ogden Phipps '31, captain of the Freshman squash team, playing with Miss Louise Iselin, was defeated by Miss Mianne Palfrey and Holmes Perkins. 11-13. 6-1, 6-3, in the fourth round. M. T. Hill '30, of the University team, and Miss Sarah Palfrey were defeated in the semi finals by Mrs. Hubbard and Henry Gile...
...Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over his several warriors had eliminated each other so thoroughly by a kind of round robin process that no one survived to make any claims to the honor...
...University polo team was defeated last night in the first round of the Inter-collegiate Polo Tournament at New York by the Pennsylvania Military College trio by a score...
...first round in each of the seven classes in the annual University wrestling tournament will be staged this evening in the Hemenway Gymnasium. The preliminary matches will not finish until tomorrow, while the semi-final and final rounds will take place Friday evening...