Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavyweight wrestling champion of the world. Officials in the U. S. had never been able to agree on the matter. Claimants to the title found it more profitable not to endanger their pretensions by wrestling against each other. Into Madison Square Garden's Long Island City Bowl last week there climbed the two principal pretenders: Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), recognized as champion in Pennsylvania, California and most other States; Jim Browning, recognized in New York, where wrestling draws biggest crowds. Because it seemed likely that neither Londos nor Browning would willingly sacrifice a title which has been worth...
...what I said." He has not got the sincerity ... a man should have who holds high public office. West Virginia's Senator Neely: I refuse to vote for another crucifixion. I refuse to participate in compelling one of the President's most useful friends to drink a bowl of hemlock. I refuse to help bind a Columbus of the New Deal with chains. I shall vote against the crucifixion, against the hemlock and the chains. . . . My act in so doing will be to me in future years- A rainbow to the storms of life: The evening beam that...
...more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell with awesome health when he clambered into his corner of the ring at the Madison Square Garden bowl in Long Island City. When the bell rang for the first round, he lumbered earnestly out of his corner and pushed his left fist inquisitively into Baer's grinning face...
...Baer won the World's Heavyweight Championship from Prime Carnera by a technical knockout in the 11th round at the Madison Square Garden Bowl. Carnera was repeatedly knocked down, from first round to the last...
Taking a sizable slice out of the top price of $4.40, the Yale Athletic Association has set at $3.85 the admission to next year's Harvard-Yale football encounter, which will be played in the Yale Bowl on November...