Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list of informal Varsity opponents on October 6, followed by the University of Rochester October 13, the U.S. Submarine Base October 20, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy October 27, the Motor Torpedo Squadron Training Center November 3, the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy November 10, and Brown will round out the season on November 17. Except for the Brown game, which will be played at Providence, all Varsity games will be played on Soldiers Field...
...m.p.h. Stories of its vast speed include one that a P-80 was flown from California to New York in three hours and 57 minutes. (Best previous nonstop time: six hours, 39½ minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness...
...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
...into stormy weather last week. In a report, Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that United Air Lines, second biggest U.S. domestic line, be given a route from the co-terminals of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii. When & if CAB finally grants the route, United will fly two round trips a day with 50-passenger...