Word: chucked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton University, the 150-lb. crews are coached by Gordon G. Sikes, a brainy, mighty-shouldered little man on crutches, coxswain of the 1916 Princeton varsity. Many a Princeton man will tell you Gordon Sikes is a better judge of rowing than Head Coach Charles ("Chuck") Logg. Coach Sikes took his 150-pounders to the Henley this year. They met Kent in the quarterfinal...
Said Retired Champion Gene Tunney, a ringside spectator: "It was low ... a dangerous punch. Once I tried an uppercut like that against Chuck Wiggins. I fouled him twice and the referee warned me. The third time I landed low the referee became quite peeved. Then Chuck Wiggins spoke for the first time. 'Gee whiz, Mr. Referee, that punch...
...Prime Minister, like Asquith in 1911, would bring the Lords to heel by threatening to advise the King* to create enough new peers to override the votes of the present members of the House of Lords; and second that Mr. MacDonald, with the Naval Conference on his hands, would chuck it and go to the country for a General Election, sure to win by a huge majority on the issue of whether the jobless workman should be deprived of his "dole" by the House of Loafers...
...also made a safety. First half score: Stanford, 14; Army, 13. Then the men in cardinal and white began drubbing the men in gold. Reverses, plain, fancy and bogus-elaborate new maneuvers by Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner-carried the Stanford team three times to the Army goal. Twice again Chuck Smalling bashed across; once again Fleishhacker asserted his 220 pounds. Smalling left the field with an ovation such as his great Stanford fullback forerunner, Ernie Nevers, used to hear. Red Cagle had played his last game for Army. Biff Jones had coached his last game for Army. Again Westerners could...