Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went on to study under Dewey at Columbia in 1915-17. Dr. Hu's four-volume student diary is still a Chinese bestseller...
Then the Oregon traipsed back to the Pacific. She carried Marines to Peking during the Boxer rebellion, was on duty at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, served as a World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...
Sentimental General Tough, stocky, sentimental James Harold Doolittle, Sc.D., man of culture and scrappy legend of U.S. aviation, received a present from the White House last week. The present: the star of a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army Air Forces. To Jimmy Doolittle, onetime crack amateur boxer, who turned his back on a fat job in commercial aviation to get a shot at the Jap, this came at an appropriate time: within the week of the bombing of Tokyo...
...Bennett Aircraft Corp. in March 1940, but Backer Frank Bennett was bought out ten months later. The company has an authorized capital of $350,000 and smart, Scottish-born John Kennedy as president. Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product was a good-looking, twin...
...sensational Junior, whom Coach Henry Lamar has called "the most outstanding young boxer I've seen," has held the University light-weight championship since his Freshman year. In search of real competition he entered the New England amateur tourney this spring, after he was unable to find a contestant to oppose him in the College even when he chose to box in the open heavy-weight department...