Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most top-notch coaches, Henry Lamar was a star in his sport long before he thought of coaching. For two years in succession before he was out of Virginia he was the National Amateur Champion; in his collegiate boxing at the Charlottesville institution he knocked out most of his opponents, frequently doubled up to box twice in a meet in two different classes. As a professional pugilist he was also a success, and had dropped but one bout when he decided to accept Harvard's offer and take up a more secure if less spectacular mode of life...
...last year they became known as the "fancy Harvard boxers," and after Larry Crampton, one of last year's greats, had toppled "Pinkie" Haines of Western Maryland to become the Intercollegiate champion in his class, the loser came out grumbling, "Aw gee, whiz, you guys don't fight. You box...
...periods, the 1940 hockey team lost to B.U. Freshmen at the Arena yesterday, 5 to 4. The defeat was the first suffered by Coach Clark Hodder's charges this year. The game was hard foguht from beginning to end and stiff checking and numerous visits to the penalty box marked the last two periods...
...heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero to 140° F., there is air conditioning. Fare...
...feeding air to the imprisoned crew until they can be rescued in the rescue bell-a sort of undersea elevator operated on cables from the salvage ship above. If Devil's Playground had been made several years ago, when its cast names were at the top of their box-office value and its story had seldom been used, it might have been an all-time box-office record breaker...