Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike the other two who have fought Primo Camera in the U. S. to date, Bill Owens, a mulatto of Guthrie, Okla., did not lose the ability to move and think at his first glimpse of his opponent's bulk. For a round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat...
...Clemens (Mark Twain): "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." And from the famed nursery tale, Gulliver's Travels, by Dean Jonathan Swift: "I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives [mankind] to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth...
...counted out. Camera hurried to a cabaret, cut a large steak in four slices and swallowed it, asked for more, drank three glasses of champagne, went out to a speakeasy for a bottle of ale, smoked many cigarets. Impressed by the speed with which he had manipulated his enormous bulk and by the correctness of his boxing, critics predicted that if he keeps in shape and is properly schooled he will be as good a drawing-card as Dempsey at his best...
...Post, with a slightly larger circulation (200,300), is independent, quick to snatch up the torch of popular issues, taking its political cue from the national Scripps-Howard chain to which it belongs. The Times-Star (circulation: 160,500) claims the support of the Best Families, boasts a greater bulk of advertising in its thick pages. Each watches its rival narrowly, trying to scoop city news and beat the other's editions to the street...