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Word: fight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rulebook. Last week Jackie Fields,* sleek Chicago Hebrew, and Young Jack Thompson, flashy San Francisco Negro, were pummeling each other about a ring there for what the promoters insisted was "the world's welterweight championship." They had reached the eighth round when two men, not pugilists, started a fight of their own in the balcony. One drew a revolver. Nearby spectators scrambled away. In a moment there was general pandemonium. One whisper said: "Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight, said: "Fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Chicago | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Paul Johnston '30 gave a fine exhibition of boxing; and G. H. Nawn '32, after trailing for the first round on Monday, rallied strongly to come through with a victory. Since there are to be two bouts in this class, the winners will have to meet in their second fight of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING FINALS SLATED AT HEMENWAY TONIGHT | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...yard breast stroke saw a hard fight between G. M. Rae 1L and R. L. Vonckx '31. For three-quarters of the distance they raced neck and neck; a final spurt by Rae finally gave him a six-inch lead which resulted in his victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...work on a $41,000,000 railroad through the Andes mountains for the Bolivian Government. He also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carey, Dempsey & Fugazy | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...proposed radio network between no U.S. cities. Postal Telegraph itself is the other rival: it has also applied to the Commission for domestic wave lengths. If radiotelephonic hookups, now a possibility, become a reality, the remaining great communications company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will be drawn into the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wire v. Wireless | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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