Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Introduction of new officers, awards, and a round of games on the Quadrangle featured Radcliffe's annual A.A. Field Day program yesterday, though to half a hundred 'Cliffedwellers, the biggest athletic event of the afternoon consisted of twisting platefuls of spaghetti around a small wooden fork at the Field House supper...
...Saturday night, the Orchestra will round out its season with a celebration at the Harvard Club in Boston, at which many alumni are expected...
...Milwaukee's smoky Auditorium, the rumbling shouts rose to a roar. The crowd was clamoring for the kill. Jackie Darthard, a promising 18-year-old Negro middleweight,* was down twice in the third round. At the bell, he stumbled woozily to his corner. To test his reactions, his manager threw questions at him quickly. "What's ya name. . . What town we in. . . What round is it?" Darthard muttered: "Cut out the jive, I'll get this guy." The guy he had to get was 160-lb. Bert Lytell, also a Negro and more noted for shiftiness than...
California has ruled that all pro boxers must fight with 8-oz. gloves instead of the usual six-ouncers. Michigan has reduced the three-minute round to two minutes...
...curtain fell, James entered the theater by the stage door. He was told that all had gone well. The star, "with incredible cruelty," led him to the middle of the stage. "For a moment or so James faced the storm, his round face white, his mouth opening and shutting." Then the star dragged him back into the wings. A contemporary account suggested that there had been a cabal against the play, and that the hissing began according to a prearranged signal. Says Author Nowell-Smith: "The problem is perhaps now insoluble...