Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface to show where they are. (A buoy located the Squalus.) The crowd around the shipyards grew bigger. After 15 hours...
...thousand Hi-Y boys (junior members of the Y. M. C. A.) gathered round a platform in the Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair. In their centre, a torch in his hand and a pile of wood at his feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots...
...contenders was 30-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's heavyweight champion who had not been in a ring for 15 months. The other was 24-year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling...
...eleventh round, the referee finally stopped the butchery, awarded a technical knockout to young Nova, who was in pretty bad shape himself. The 18,000 reputable U. S. citizens, sitting under the stars in Yankee Stadium, cheered long and loud. They thought it had been a good fight...
...Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance of sacred music, and contrary to that solemnity which should accompany an exercise so near...