Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who are unused to the ways of tools are awkward in their handling. The physical plant of a college constitutes its tools and time and instruction obviate awkwardness in the employment of the implements of learning. A willing enough mind and a stout heart are the fundamental prerequisites of apprentices in the business of making Harvard...
...swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
...junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing his specialty of chin-blocking. For two rounds Canzoneri handed out punishment. At the start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block, hit him under the heart with a right, then straightened his right up to the jaw. Berg stood...
Women got excited on both sides of Prohibition in Washington last week. The only things the National Woman's Demo- cratic Law Enforcement League and the Women's Organization For National Prohibition Reform had in common were: the awkward length of their names, an intense belief that liquor would be the paramount 1932 issue, a visit to the White House...
...McTigue. Never a good boxer. Berlenbach was badly beaten by Jack Delaney five years ago (TIME, July 26. 1926). For his fight with Delaney, Berlenbach received $125,000. For knocking out dusky Six-Finger Eddie Clark last week, he got $40. Critics agreed, after watching his ring tactics (more awkward than ever) and his wild left hook (no longer dangerous), that he was unlikely to come far back. Still, they wrote about him. And he got a contract to fight again, this time...