Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature of the bout will be the 118-pound match between Harvey Ross and Aliman of Penn, blind grappler who placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiates last year. Captain Ruggiero, holder of several impressive titles, will fight Bill Daughaday of the home squad in the 165-pound division...
...research is made possible through the development of an "electron bombardment" furnace, in which metals have been heated, without contamination up to temperatures of bout 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, or nearly half that of the sun. Much higher temperatures could be easily reached by this apparatus, the Harvard scientists...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden one night last week 18,000 fight fans witnessed one of the most exciting stretch finishes they could remember. Onetime World Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock had entered the ring an 8-to-5 underdog in a ten-round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost...
...rehearsal for the bout, love-smitten Joe, teaching Sadie a hammer lock, suddenly pressed his lips to hers, refused to go on with the match. Manager Ed was desperate till Noah (Daniel Boone Savage), Sadie's discarded hillbilly swain, started taking pot shots at the troupe with a squirrel gun. Bearded Noah leaped at a chance to crush Joe's bones in public, winner take Sadie. Ed sent Joe in to lose, reversed his instructions halfway through the match when Madison Square Garden wired an offer. But when the troupe left, Loser Noah was Garden-bound, Winner...
Best lines: Eleanor, welcomed by the nabob with punctilious honors, rejoining with full Flatbush skepticism: "Wuss this alia bout...