Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ought to be pretty good experts. How can guys sitting in the press box know who hits the hardest? You have to feel the jolts...
...work of Coach Henry Lamar and his two-man staff, who make "box--don't fight!" the password in the third-floor punch-palace in the Blockhouse...
...Most of the fellows think they're going to box right away," Lamar laughed. On the contrary, beginners are drilled in the rudiments for well over a month before they square off. Advanced students, however, work on the bags and in the ring, wearing protective headgear. And everybody gets calisthenics...
Lilienthal, as part of a study on children's radio serials, had previously traded box-tops for such items as mystery rings, atom guns, and quiz master sets...
Picou, a lean, olive-skinned boy with huge hands, showed up at Bowie race track two weeks ago and booted home twelve winners the first six days. People began betting on him rather than on the horses he rode. One Baltimore paper carried a special box, listing Picou's mounts for the day. By last week he had become so well known that the New York Daily Mirror headlined: "YOU KNOW WHO" WINS...