Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bicycle jaunts, often in conjunction with outing clubs of neighboring women's colleges, average 35 miles round trip. These journeys have taken in such points of interest as the Blue Hills, Cape Ann, and Walden Pond, of Thoreau fame...
After reaching the semi-finals of the Michigan State Amateur tourney during the same three years, he went all the way to win in 1939, nosing out Yale-man John Bailey in the final round. With this title tucked away, Barclay turned pro the next year, taking a job at Cadillac, Michigan, for the season...
...nearest (though not very near) thing to a fine artist in the medium of U.S. radio is Norman Corwin. Few dramatists reach so wide an audience-a fact that last February helped him win the first Wendell Willkie One World Award: a round-the-world trip designed to dramatize, as did Willkie's, the adjacence of everywhere...
...Board shot off the first round by lifting the ban on margin trading on the stock exchange. Instead of requiring stock buyers to pay cash in full for stocks, they will soon be permitted to buy stocks on 25% margin-i.e., pay 75% cash, borrow the rest from brokers. This did not satisfy Wall Streeters. New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram grumbled that margins should have been set at 50%. But everyone agreed that the failing market needed a shot...
Four months ago, hard-pressed Yale raised its tuition to $500-the maximum the Government pays for veterans under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Last week Yale announced a second round of tuition raising-up to $600 a year, effective next fall. The raise would make Yale tuition the Ivy League's most expensive...