Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are 25 birds to a round. This means the competitor shoots one bird from each house (singly) at each of the eight stations; and one bird from each house (simultaneously) from stations one, two, six, and seven. That makes 24. If he breaks all 24 birds, he can shoot his last one from any station and from either house. Otherwise, he want shoot the last bird from the place where he first missed...
...golf team will weekend in Now Haven today and tomorrow, playing Yale, Princeton, and Columbia in the two-day Eastern Intercollegiates. The host two teams in the round-robin matches will go to Atlantic City later this month to play the winners of the Southern Intercollegiates...
...Austrian-born Fred Miller. A civilian personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year. It had grossed $1,600,000 and netted a tidy $41,000. Miller did it by using 60 seats in his planes instead...
...people round about did marvel at my great works for my treasure did grow and magnify by sixty nine dollars and fifty cents; and my wisdom was very great...
...round preliminary between the respective J.V. teams resulted in an 8 to 0 win by the Tiger second stringers...