Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Mrs. Truman at his side, the President drove a Secret Service convertible coupe along the park's winding roads. Wearing a Panama hat and carrying binoculars, he studied the terrain from Big Round Top and a knoll overlooking the field across which Pickett's Virginians had made their charge. Said Artilleryman Truman: Pickett's men might have broken through with one more push. Then the son of Missouri Confederates added: We may all thank God that they didn't. That would have been the end of the Union...
...unexpected defection highlighted the opening round of the house debate on the controversial loan, and it arrayed with the Republican opposition such hitherto-staunch administration supporters as Reps. Adolph Sabath, (D), N.Y., dean of the House, Hugh Delacy, (D), Wash., Emanuel Cellar, (D), N.Y., and Vito Marcantonio...
...this is pretty hard to take. But if you want confirmation of your suspicion that certain local professors are made of clay from the kneecaps down, Miss Howe's treatment of the Harvard faculty and all the bright, glittering people who cluster round them like a beeswarm is just what you're after...
...quite understood how Kramer got the blister so late in the season. By using a special glove, the rangy No. 1 hope of U.S. amateur tennis* whizzed through the first three rounds. His big serve was working fine. In the fourth round, he met thickset, bespectacled Jaroslav Drobny, a Czechoslovakian left-hander who also had a big serve. They slammed it out, Kramer aggressively, Drobny methodically. The second set went to an exhausting 17-15 and Kramer developed new blisters, discarded his glove. He winced on each drive to Drobny's vulnerable spot, the backhand. In the end, Kramer...
Spindle-legged Champion Black Bob threw everything but the gate receipts at Challenger Allie Stolz, floored him five times. But unlike Billy Conn, Challenger Stolz was game. He was finally knocked out in the 13th round, got a big hand in half-filled Madison Square Garden for staying as long...