Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right up until 8 o'clock this evening the Business School tennis courts attendant will accept entries for the University's summer championship tournament. After that, you're out of luck, for the first round opens tomorrow and there's no time or place to squeeze in a tardy racqueteer...
...first round will end by August 19 and the whole competition is expected to be finished by August 20. The tournament was held up a week by a Business School vacation...
...Harddriving, 51-year-old Roy Burkhart gets his directive for each day's work in an hour of meditation right after breakfast each morning. During this hour he ruminates upon "who I am, why I'm here and where I'm going." Then he begins a round of activity so strenuous that he often breaks off for a half hour's nap. While he was on a recent trip to New York City, the janitor of Manhattan's Riverside Church was amazed to come upon him stretched out, dead to the world...
...citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university in the U.S. Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th...
...ultimately dispiriting quality of O'Hara's writing has been variously explained. One explanation: since his first novel, Appointment in Samarra, he has worked out a kind of ring technique for polishing off his subjects in one fast round. Subjects on which he might have to go the distance are not taken on; such subjects include whatever, if anything, O'Hara may love...