Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-final round of the University Club fourth annual invitation squash racquets tournament, December 28, Kim Cannavarro was defeated by Stanley W. Pearson of Princeton...
Four of the five Harvard players survived the first round. They were Cannavarro, Frank Appleton, Jim Rousmaniere, and Dan Ladd. The Pearson-Cannavarro semi-final was a blaze of hard-hitting, with little change of pace by either player...
...Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...were the signs that the Nazi economy of exchange control, barter trade, lowered standard of living, "self-sufficiency," was cracking. Nor were signs lacking that many Germans disliked the cruelties of their Government, but were afraid to protest them. Having a hard time to provide enough bread to go round, Führer Hitler was being driven to give the German people another diverting circus. The Nazi controlled press, jumping the rope at the count of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, shrieked insults at real and imagined enemies. And the pace of the German dictatorship quickened as more & more guns rolled...
...Turn round and round...