Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stoico's 360-feet home run with one man on base in the fourth inning yesterday broke up a tight pitching duel at Braves Field and gave Boston University a well-earned 3 to 1 victory over the varsity...
Born. To Audie Murphy, 29, most decorated soldier of World War II, now a Hollywood cowboy (Duel at Silver Creek), and his second wife, Pamela Archer Murphy, 31: their second child, second son; in Hollywood. Name: James Shannon. Weight...
...length from the Woodvale Farm's favored (2-1) Goyamo, Eddie Arcaro up. ¶ In Manhattan, FBI-Men Horace Ash-enfelter, holder of the world indoor two-mile record, and Fred Wilt, who helped him set it (TIME, Feb. 22), hooked up in a two-mile duel in the final indoor track meet of the season. For the first time in 16 indoor tries against Wilt, Ashenfelter won. Time: 8:58.5, eight seconds off his record...
...Snodgrass, the indomitable Sam ("The world is wery full of willains") Weller, the scapegrace Jingle, Mr. Wardle ("Joe? Drat that boy! He's asleep again!"), Serjeant Buzfuz, Mrs. Bardell, the pettifogging Dodson & Fogg. Most of the main "adventures in the course of enlightenment" are related-Winkle's duel with Dr. Slammer ("Mr. Pickwick, do not obtain the assistance of several peace officers to take either me or Dr. Slammer into custody. I say do not."), the "gammoning" of Rachel Wardle, Mr. Pickwick caught prowling in a lady's chamber, Mr. Pickwick brought to court by a woman...
Asked if he thought he could forestall the loss of maids, Perkins said, "I could offer to fight a duel with some other House Master. Then the loser's House would have to give up its maid service first...