Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gong, Carpentier closed with his opponent; there was some fierce pumelling in which Townley suffered. Just before the end of the round Townley gave Carpentier the opening for which he had been waiting. Like a meteor in the night, the Frenchman's right shot out to the Englishman's jaw and the gong left him prone...
...second round was short. Townley seemed groggy. Carpentier got in another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said...
...since the Englishman in politics is admittedly empirical the immediate fate of the Labor Ministry doubtless rests upon the results of its present program. By initiating a strange foreign policy that has been characteristic recent governments Premier MacDonald has appeased at British longing which Mr. Golding declares has gone unsatisfied since the early nineteenth century. There remains the vexing problem of unemployment. If any thing is likely to wreck the immediate political fortunes of the present ministry it will be popular impatience with an unavoidable slowness in reshaping the economic forces now depressing English industry...
...idea, but a number of such devices have been developed with partial success. The Britisher's invention will be offered to the British Government first, but, if not accepted, then to other nations. The French and German experimenters have not yet reached the efficiency of the Englishman's machine. It can also be used against infantry, either to kill or disable...
...lost one. The championship appeared to lie between these two men and Reti of Czecho-Slovakia and Capablanca of Cuba, present champ. The two Americans (Ed. Lasker of Chicago and Frank Marshall of New York) stood at the bottom of the list, save one. At the very bottom was Englishman Yates...