Word: rounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because there is ice in Juneau Harbor some months of the year Pan American will use land planes instead of their big Clippers" [TIME, Aug. 15]. Juneau and all other Alaskan seaports are free of ice and open to navigation the year round, except Nome, on Bering Sea, which is open about five months. Juneau, like Chicago, gets its ice from electric refrigeration...
...Wichita, Kans. last week, 26 of the best sand-lot teams in the country, the winners of district, State and regional contests, batted it out under floodlights for the U. S. semi-pro championship. After a two-week round robin, the Buford (Ga.) Bona Allens, who came to the tournament with a record of 96 victories in 112 games this season, went home with a purse of $5,000 and the national title...
...years when the Davis Cup is held by the U. S., the coffers of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association swell some $50,000 from gate receipts of the Interzone Final and Challenge Round, always played in the country defending the Cup. This year the tennis association got out an extra coffer when Helen Wills Moody decided to try for a comeback in international tennis. A meeting between Helen Moody and Helen Jacobs in the U. S. championship would add at least $25,000 to the till. Thus the U. S. L. T. A. was very glad...
...coach at Ohio State for the past eight years, will succeed Fred F. Mitchell, who resigned early this summer, as head baseball coach here, it was announced by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. He will come to Cambridge early this fall and will be a year-round coach...
...Zara, the only hotel that will accept the committee is the Bonnie Bell, crawling with roaches and lechers. In the night, dark sedans run round & round the hotel. May Diehl, the committee's case worker, whimpers atop a chair. In another room the teacher, Tom Pettee, strokes the pretty hair of Carol Gillman, an impetuous divorcee. The others discuss tactics. A gang of local "antis" come in, carry out the committee's two leaders, take them to a dark swamp, thrash them unconscious. Then they turn lights and police on their victims. "I swear!" they say. "They have...