Word: beating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the count 8-5 Harvard came back to win 3 out of four in the epee. S. C. Smith '31 defeated Tompkins in the first epee contest. The chance of winning the match became hopeless however, when Sanville of Columbia beat H. B. Wesselman '31 in the second bout. Harvard won the two remaining bouts though they had no bearing on the final result...
Died. Peter J. Hill, onetime chess champion; of old age; in Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill...
...association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero, lawless Chicago suburb; no one was going to beat him, to bomb his place of business. The association did, however, try peaceful measures, inaugurated a price-cutting war which is still going...
...born in Logansport, Ind., in 1871, went to St. Paul's, then to the University of Pennsylvania. At St. Paul's he met James McCrea, whose father was then president of the Pennsylvania railroad. At Pennsylvania, Student Thornton won fame as a line-plunger, helped Penn beat Princeton (1892) and after graduating became football coach at Vanderbilt. He then (1894) entered the Pennsylvania Railroad offices as a draftsman, remained to become (1911) superintendent of the Long Island Railroad...
About writing verse, Author March knows more than he knows about the fight racket. His descriptions beat with journalistic rhythms and, if somewhat banal, his pictures are graphic and exciting...