Word: bend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenth round. Heeney's seconds carried him to his corner, poured water on him, rubbed him, wiped some of the blood off his face, got him on his feet for the eleventh round. Courageously, he delivered two or three blows, but received a dozen which made his knees bend and his back feel the ropes. Referee Edward Forbes, night sports-editor on the Brooklyn Eagle, stepped forward and stopped the fight, awarding Champion Tunney what is called a technical knockout. Heeney's head was drooping and there was a liquid in his eyes in addition to blood. Tunney...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. of Buffalo, with assets of $24,000,000, has been losing money. The Studebaker Corp. of South Bend, with assets of $135,000,000, has been making tidy profits. Last week, the board of directors of Fierce-Arrow approved the plans of Studebaker for a merger of the two firms; President Myron E. Forbes of Fierce-Arrow called for a meeting of the stockholders on July 25, writing them that it would be for their own good to consent to the plans. No matter how good the product, a large organization...
Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow. The board of directors of the Studebaker Corp. were to meet at South Bend, Ind., to consider a merger with the Pierce-Arrow Motor...
President Albert Russel Erskine of the Studebaker (motor cars) Corp. has a thriving $135,878,000 industry at South Bend, Ind. At Buffalo, N. Y., 450 miles away, President Myron E. Forbes of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. also has a not so thriving industry, with assets of $24,373,000. These facts, plus the reasonable inference that Studebaker might specialize on one grade of car and Pierce-Arrow on another, plus the further fact that President Erskine last week admitted he has been having informal conversations with President Forbes on the subject, indicated that a Studebaker-Pierce-Arrow...
...training camp was favored with a visit of the Notre Dame baseball squad today. The South Bend diamond stars, fresh from their massacre of the Crimson in Cambridge, were in New London to play the Knights of Columbus team, and after their game journeyed here to inspect the crew quarters. They were shown around the grounds and were taken out in one of the launches to watch the three mile practice of the Harvard crews...