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Word: fight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant Jr. '29, G. L. Graves '31, A. W. Huguley '31, G. C. Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material but an injury to his knee kept him out of active...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/27/1928 | See Source »

...TIME for this week and I say, I don't see anything in there about my countree Greece. What's the matter with your agents? Can't they get any news about Mr. Venizelos? I am a Royalist, and I am proud ot it. I will fight for the Royalist flag any old time so tell me what the news is about my countree. I depend on your magazine for the news and you look like you are scared to tell me the news. I will expect to hear from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Washington. The alleged issue was Tacoma v. the Timber Interests in a Republican fight between Chairman Albert Johnson of the House Committee on Immigration and one Homer T. Bone of Tacoma for the nomination to Mr. Johnson's seat. Mr. Johnson won narrowly. Other Republican winners were Governor Roland H. Hartley (renominated) and Kenneth Macintosh. The latter outran Miles Poindexter, oldtime (1911-23) Senator, retired Ambassador to Peru, for nomination to the Senate seat now occupied by Washington's Clarence C. Dill. Democrats nominated Lawyer A. Scott Bullitt of Seattle to run against Governor Hartley. Senator Dill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: As Goes . . . So Goes . . . . | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...officers and non-commissioned officers−and behind them enormous numbers who have shown in the late War what heroes they were. You cannot say that if another call to arms sounded they would not, for eight or ten years at least, be ready to come forward and fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Schweinehundl! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...fight was important, not because the contestants were famous, but because they used different and interesting styles of wrestling. The Bahian lout fought after the manner of Brazilian capoeira. This is the national style of fighting; it includes blows as well as grips and it was perfected, as might be imagined, by a huge band of Hoodlums who once terrorized Rio de Janeiro. Even kicks in the head are allowed and the Bahia Negro attempted these, without avail, against his little foeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jiu Jitsu | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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