Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis a fisticuffer's summa cum laude...
...flew twice a week, but they were booked heavily weeks ahead. U. S. Lines operated on full schedules, stepped up their sailings to evacuate 5,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe. But their seamen, striking for 25% wage increase, war-risk life insurance and bonuses, delayed some eight liners nearly a week...
...Announced last week by the Wichita (Kans.) Museum of Art was the purchase of John Sloan's Hudson Sky, painted in 1908, one of eight canvases by leading U. S. artists that will serve as nucleus for the museum's projected gallery of U. S. painting. *GIST OF ART - American Artists Group...
...Rutherford tried cobra venom injections on 17 women, most of them victims of incurable cancer. Of the 17, eight felt completely relieved (several even gained weight, went back to work), seven told him their pain was greatly diminished. Only two had poor results. Other physicians, said Dr. Rutherford, are trying venom injections for relief of pain caused by chronic arthritis, heart disease, gangrene. Advantages over morphine: 1) venom lasts longer (morphine may wear off in three hours) ; 2) it is not habit-forming...
Like the old woman who lived in a shoe, the medical scientists who housekeep for vitamins have an unmanageable lot of charges. At present, for example, chemists believe that there are eight varieties of vitamin B, at least ten of D. One member of the vitamin B family is also known as vitamin G, another newcomer as factor Y. Two relatives of the C tribe are known as J and P. Most practical name-calling, so far as scientific convenience is concerned, would be to recognize each vitamin by its chemical name. Thus vitamin E would be known as alpha...