Word: rounde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...palace. Troops and police in new, bright uniforms were ranged outdoors. The populace crowded the sidewalks. Flags of Cuba and of those two score nations which had sent special envoys to the Inaugural, fluttered everywhere. Cuba always has a breeze blowing. It makes Cuba more comfortable all the year round than is any U. S. city during the U. S. summer...
...some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat," and anyway his Post was not for sale...
...independence of power resources, electric light, its amazingly simplified practicality in the perfection of detail has convinced many of the most obdurate, and has frightened many of the most farseeing. For in its widest implication the Dymaxion house is rather a frightening phenomenon. It threatens the architectural aesthetic round on an accumulative tradition, of Roman, Romanesque and Renaissance design. It dispenses with contracting engineers, with servants, with such domestic appendages as laundries, custom built furniture, electric light bulbs, carpets. It threatens the present economic system of centralized control of natural resources. It may mean the dissolution of the suburbs...
Hagen's winning score was 292, the same as last year. At the halfway mark (36 holes) Diegel led him by two strokes, 140 to 142, despite a record-smashing round of 67 by Hagen. Diegel had cracked out a 69 himself that afternoon. Next morning he cracked up and had to hit his ball 82 times before holing out at lunch time. Hagen, wind or no wind, dropped back to his steady 75 pace, and held it during the afternoon. Diegel needed a 70 to tie, another 69 to win. He took 77, and dropped behind...
...ROUND UP-Ring W. Lardner-Scribner...