Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete round will be played before Christmas vacation and another during late January and February. The two winning teams from each round will vie for the Yard championship...
...will be a round-robin competition of two eight-team loops--the National and American. The same halls represented in Yard football will enter squads, with the exception that a team from Massachusetts will be substituted for Wigglesworth of the National League...
...Army officer, Major General Sanderford Jarman, to see the 27th's Ralph Smith. Jarman reported back the Army commander's admission: "If he didn't take his division forward tomorrow, he should be relieved." Next morning, the division did not budge. "In this context of all-round poor performance by the 27th Division," Howlin' Mad wrote, he took map in hand and went to see the overall operation commander, Admiral Raymond Spruance. He told him: "Ralph Smith has demonstrated that he lacks aggressive spirit and his division is slowing down our advance. He should be relieved...
...Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...
...report that sounded like the bell for a fourth round of wage boosts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said last week that factory wages since V-J day had increased an average of 33% an hour and 30% a week but that "rising prices have more than offset the increase." But the New York Times thought BLS had let go a low blow. It thought wages and purchasing power should be compared with those of January, 1941 (the base date of the Little Steel formula). "We find," said the Times, "that while the cost of living has risen 73%, average...