Word: roundabout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athletic Association; their equipment and field of action controlled by the Department of Physical Education. That the two systems should often conflict is inevitable. Orders in one department have to be countermanded by the other and frequently loss of time and waste of energy result from the roundabout process of procuring and transferring equipment...
...same case with "America" is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem "Excelsior" written at three o'clock in the morning on the back of a letter from Wendell Phillips. In another case are parts of the original manuscript of "The Uncommerical Traveller" in Dickens' unreadable scrawl, and of the "Roundabout Papers" written by Thackeray in a hand that resembles printed script...