Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once in office Fibber Elliott kept his eye on Mrs. Lee and wondered what to do next. True to her campaign promises, the new mayor cleaned out Portland's basketball and hockey-betting hangouts, had her cops round up prostitutes, close Chinese gambling dives. She even sent her police out to pick up all the slot machines, including those in such private hangouts as the Portland Press Club, which made $50,000 profit on them last year...
...Queen Ingrid came on the air, she revealed that all her children have inherited their father's musical talent. "Even Anne-Marie," said the Queen, "has been able for fully a year to hum the tune of the trooping of the colors." The Queen told of her daily round of duties, adding: "However busy we may be, we always manage to be together at teatime...
...Four. This week, with every gilded chassis and every cutaway transmission in place, G.M.'s President Charles Erwin Wilson and his four executive vice presidents would stand atop a marble staircase at the Waldorf to greet their guests and show their wares, on which they had spent a round $150 million for retooling. All of G.M.'s cars showed a drastic change either inside or out. They were so low and rakish that a small man could look over the top. They had wider seats (average front seat width: 62 inches), little change in wheelbases (but in some...
February will also usher in the second round of '52 intramural basketball play with Hollis defending its first half American League and Yard titles...
Volleyball competition between Yard dormitories next term is slated for a definite decision by Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, sometime this week. The seven-man freshman athletic council has applied for permission to run a round robin early next term with the standard two league...