Word: attestations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attest little thing...
...Eight days before the fight, Sharkey inspected his left hand, discovered that his third and little fingers were slightly swollen at the knuckle. Convinced that such a hand was no fit instrument with which to assail the long lantern jaw of Primo Carnera, Sharkey called in four doctors to attest his injury, demanded a postponement. The postponement was first denied, then granted, to Oct. 12. To disappointed Monster Carnera, deprived of his first real chance to prove the much-ridiculed contention of his manager, Leon See, that Carnera is the greatest heavyweight fighter in history, a substitute for Sharkey...
...record Dr. Richard's extraordinary medical achievement; that is widely recognized. No testimonial of his personal attraction need be compiled; the admiration of his friends is attest, And the sense of loss occasioned by Dr. Richards' departure from Harvard fields will not be peculiar to Harvard...
...Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...