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Word: ermino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Married. Ermino Spalla, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, to Senorita Esmeralda Ascoli; at Rome, amid a crowd of enthusiasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...Staggering blindly, Ermino Spalla, Italian Colossus, sought refuge on the floor from the rude jars dealt him by Gene Tunney, American light-heavyweight champion; was declared technically unconscious in the seventh round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk Fund | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

Firpo was scheduled for one more fight before leaving his home Pampas -with Ermino Spalla, Italian, heavyweight champion of Europe, who was introduced to the Buenos Aires crowd last Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull's Meat | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Words | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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