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Word: round (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these games, the organization will not offer a repeat on this season's self-reliant excursion to Virginia, which turned into a financial disaster. The HAA may point helplessly at its annual deficit. Such a deficit, however, in a university that almost always contrives to have every individual department round out the year in the black, is largely a matter confined to the Treasurer's bookkeeping. If the HAA were to take a lively interest in the band, it ought not to have much difficulty in persuading University financial authorities to absorb an extra $7,000. In fact, the performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Least In The East | 11/4/1947 | See Source »

...That Was War." To travel round Germany now is to realize how strongly, even fiercely, that trait of looking after their own is re-emerging among the Germans. Last year they would not have dared protest as vehemently as they did last week over the revised Anglo-American list of factories to be removed for reparations-though the new list has only 682 plants compared to the original figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Progress (?) Report | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...undergraduates must face upon graduation is hardly adequate preparation for life. Students will not be able to discharge their responsibilities to the community they live in on theory alone. Settlement House work is one way to develop a genuine social consciousness through actual contact with the underprivileged children and round out an education that otherwise tends to restrict itself to the four corners of a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheel in a Wheel | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

...comparatively tricky plays helped whet the spectators' interest. One was for the left tackle to go into motion, run behind the quarterback, take the ball from him, and round right end hopefully. Penalties existed for tackling low, so if the man got started speedily, his chances of making a touchdown weren...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...ball used was generally quite soft, and its shape was nearer to being round than it is today. With passing confined to a rare lateral, a large, hard pigskin was not needed. The team would lace and blow up the ball just before the game and often they had a long, difficult time doing it to their satisfaction. Woodman, one of the five surviving members of the team of '87, remembers his difficulties preparing the pigskin with pained amusements...

Author: By Morman S. Poser, | Title: Football in '80s Wild and Woolly, Featuring Pulled Whiskers, Flying Wedge, Fancy Kicking | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

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