Word: round
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...
...defeated Australia in one fell swoop in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, great silver symbol of international lawn tennis supremacy. Last week, on the same courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, a 1938 crop of U. S. and Australian Davis Cuppers met again in the challenge (final) round...
DEBUSSY: IBERIA (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting; Victor: 5 sides). Debussy's subtle, impressionistic portrait of Spain gets its best all-round recording to date...
What part of Mayor LaGuardia's bustling salesmanship Mayor Ellenstein considered a stratagem he did not say, but anyone could guess. Less than two miles from North Beach stand the spindling 700-foot Trylon and the great round Perisphere of the New York World's Fair 1939. A thick slice of premium revenue will undoubtedly go to the transportation system that can pick up the sightseer at his home airport and deposit him in the shadow of the World's Fair's Big Apple...
...Emanuel Haldeman-Julius makes hay with "five-cent" pamphlets, many have sold "15 easy lessons." Since last March the newest of these enterprises, the National Educational Alliance, has been offering as a short cut to learning 57 courses at 1? a lesson. By last week it had a good round number to boast about -250,000 students...