Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defender. To small boys who sail model boats on duck ponds, the best models are those patterned after America's Cup yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important...
...more logical to deduce that the dastardly deed at Duck Hill typifies the spirit of Mississippi than to conclude, on the basis of gang killings and torture slayings, that all New Yorkers are murder-minded...
About the Duck Hill double-lynching report and picture [TIME, April...
TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases...
...because he was fighting a onetime underling. Physically it was Ambers' because he knew all his opponent's tricks. Before the fight was two rounds old, it became obvious that this time Ambers' knowledge of how to catch Canzoneri's jabs on his elbows, duck his hard rights, was worth more than Canzoneri's ever-fresh certainty that Ambers did not really belong in the same ring with him. When, after 15 rounds, Canzoneri's self-assurance was the only thing he had left, three judges unanimously gave Ambers the decision. Equally unanimous, experts...