Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophy about the business he is in. He best expressed this philosophy himself, when he addressed a student rally before the Columbia game: "When 22 men are chasing a pigskin spheroid, it's hard to tell which way the ball will bounce. And when that spheroid is not even round, the variables are unlimited." All he can do as a coach, he feels, is get his 11 men in a better position to chase the ball--and then pray it isn't jinxed. A mortal can do no more...
Seven hundred lengths of the 'Cliffe pool will complete the imaginary round trip and give the winning team 25 points toward the intramural trophy. Freshman swimmers are approaching Dartmouth, while the seniors lagged too long at MIT and are now only halfway to Brown...
...generals' attention was focused on the area round Suchow, key to Nanking and the Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged fish." Human sacrifices, piously (and frequently) performed on the tops of volcanoes, gave new life...
...Bruins have a flock of fast 175 round backs of about equal ability...