Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Failing to take advantage of its chances to score in the eighth inning of the contest, the Varsity baseball team went down to defeat yesterday before the Brown aggregation by the score of 3-2. DcGive was in the box for the Crimson during the entire game...
...world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought out of his winnings. The difference in their styles made the fight interesting, puzzled...
...best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez...
...loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every few months Mr. Mitchell would dig more stock certificates from his strong box, send more fat bundles to the House of Morgan to bolster the loan. Into the Morgan vaults, batch by batch, went tens of thousands of shares. When his strong box was clean he turned over mortgages on his three homes. Last week he still owed J. P. Morgan...
...battery alone of the team players has escaped the radical shake-up, as Nevin will again start behind the plate, while either Loughlin, Taylor, or McJennett will start in the pitcher's box. Along with the general revamping of the team, deGive, a pitcher on the Jayvees, and Kiernan, an infielder on the same team, have been added to the Varsity squad. The changes in the lineup, so far as can be ascertained, are aimed to steady down the team, a circumstance necessitated by the disastrous defeat the nine suffered at the hands of Holy Cross last Saturday...