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Word: carneras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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...much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held the heavyweight championship (Jess Willard) was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brobdingnagian | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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