Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they will certainly go to war." Support for rearmament came hard for him because he made a reputation exposing armament makers, earned the enmity of powerful Armorer Charles Schneider. He was thus squarely opposed to his friend Léon Blum when their party's annual Congress came round...
...decided on the three tennis players who, along with Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, and John Palfrey of Harvard, will go abroad this summer to compete in the tournament with the Oxford-Cambridge team. Captain Gordy Campbell of the Elis rated one of the three Yale places immediately, but a round robin tournament had to be held to determine the remaining two places...
...returned to his old home on Brattle Street "to round out the year." He plans to sail with Mrs. Frankfurter on June 14 on the Normandie. The Justice will go to Oxford University to receive an honorary degree...
Ablest all-round: Homer S. Brown...
...Boxer Henry Armstrong, world's welterweight and lightweight champion: a 15-round match in defense of his welterweight title; lambasting the challenger, Britain's Welterweight Champion Ernie Roderick, who had won 23 previous fights in a row; before 5,000 howling Britons, some of whom paid ten guineas (about $50) for their ringside seats; at Harringay Arena, London. For his performance, Champion Armstrong, undefeated in 46 fights, received ?8,000 ($40,000), largest purse in British boxing history...