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...prolate spheroid used in rugby is rounder than a football and therefore easier to kick, but more difficult to throw. The rugby match consists of two 35-minute periods of continuous play separated by a five-minute half-time break after which the teams change goals...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Rugby Has Long Honorable History, Complicated Set of Rules, Terms | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

Louisville gave Cassius a welcoming parade that "crippled the town." He bought a "rosy pink" hardtop Cadillac on time. And he signed to fight his first professional bout-a six-rounder with a former smalltown West Virginia police chief named Tunney Hunsaker. "He's a bum," confided Cassius. "I'll lick him easy." But he still got up at 5 a.m. every day to run at least two miles in Chickasaw Park, and he boxed a few fast training rounds with his younger brother Rudolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dream | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...still too tired to ride herd on the boy, and Scott cut loose. He told a LIFE reporter: "The local papers that say I was just a normal boy are trying to think of something not bad to say. I had a wonderful time, but I was a real rounder. I didn't study hard, and I had to quit high school football because I couldn't devote myself to learning the plays. I stole things from stores, and I was just drifting through, a sort of no-good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SOMETHING I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

...actuality, the ball was rounder than the final score might indicate. When one of the five WHRBies who remembered to show up for the game was drafted in a touching halftime ceremony, the hapless Radiomen engaged the services of varsity football fullback Bill Grana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Cagers Squash WHRB | 3/7/1962 | See Source »

...ages, female toes, insteps and heels have been pummeled, prodded and ultimately propelled into shoes that resemble the human foot purely coincidentally and only occasionally. The pointed-toe look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes, only the problem of walking on the ever-so-chic, sliver-thin heels remained. This season, a comfortable look in women's shoes emerged. The low-heeled, easy-fitting shoe is not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: A Shoe-In | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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