Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recovered from a bout with sciatica, which she regarded as a "bore," Queen Mary was up at 8:30 as usual on her 83rd birthday, read many of the thousands of letters and telegrams that poured into Marlborough House, London. At noon she rode in her green Daimler to Buckingham Palace for the customary birthday luncheon. All in all, it was a busy week. A few days before her birthday, she showed up at the Chelsea Flower Show at Royal Hospital, was helped across a muddy stream (see cut). The day after her busy birthday, she took in the Derby...
Died. Joe Gould, 53, manager of prizefighters, including onetime Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Jersey Jim") Braddock-with whom he never signed a formal contract until the title bout with Max Baer, relying instead on a simple handshake agreement; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...want to be a radio "ham," don't take it up while you're in college. Life for Harvard's half-dozen active amateur radio enthusiasts is a constant bout with inadequate antennae, insufficient power supplies, and unsympathetic neighbors. They operate as cautiously as spies behind the iron curtain and probably under just as many hardships...
...pound class 136-pound Moe Richardson of Winthrop pinned the Bellboys' John Decuevas with a half-nelson and body-press at 3:37, and Pete Bierre of Leverett used the same hold to win over Deacon Dave Holden at 2:33 in a 155-pound bout...
...scoring, well-wrestled bout, Guy McKhann of Dunster gained a close 2 to 0 decision over Dick Farrington of Leverett...