Word: blows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took turns talking, apparently to themselves; an inconspicuous microphone in front of them carried their gabble verbatim to many million people. They told how the rain, just a sprinkle as the fighters got into the ring, grew harder; how Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally...
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...last the great day is at hand. The whistle is about to blow for another Forecast year; new diamonds are about to be set in the Forecast crown. There is just a tinge of sadness connected with this opening, however, sadness because for another year I am obliged to keep to myself the outcome of the Harvard games. And it happened this way--I'll be confidential with...
...team, and R. W. Turner '28, who held down the center position in the scoreless tie game with Yale last year, take language examinations which they must pass to remain off probation. The loss of either of these men through scholastic difficulties will be a serious blow to the University hopes. The outcome is expected to be known by next Wednesday...
...Many of you like to moralize. This kind of activity is not profitable. It is better to kill with ridicule. A harsh word must be hurled out abruptly, like a blow; but in passing judgment you must remember that you are judging comrades whose life is very hard and who as yet do not understand the enormous demands of the present historic time. It is hard for them to understand this, because they haven't the time to learn...