Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Oakes '38, who was the winner last year, was defeated in the 165-pound bout by Douglas G. Macleod '39 promising young fighter who is also on the Freshman basketball team...
...vote as an entity, giving the winner a vote of either 2-0 or 2-1. By this application of the rules, the judges need not reveal how many points they have awarded each contestant. Last week, however, Yale adopted a method of adding the points given to each fighter by the two judges and referee, and awarding the bout to the man amassing the most points. Because of this difference of opinion, Huffman of Yale won his bout with Olney by 1 1/2 points, although the Harvard interpretation would have made Olney the winner by a 2-1 count...
Died. Samuel Maverick, 98, onetime Indian fighter, rancher and banker, whose father's negligence in branding cattle led to a new word in U. S. speech; uncle of Representative Maury Maverick; in Austin...
...quite amazed to learn nearly 1,300 bulls are killed this way in Spain every year--though very gracefully, I am told--and these be worth $20 to $30 a head. Also, it was new to me that the great Cid himself is by patriotic tradition the original bull fighter. I did not catch whether Dr. Cline himself did ever bull fight, though I know were he as capable a matador as he be a story teller the bulls have little chance...
...comes off to Joe Louis the dark skinned fighter who ordered his mother to refund to Detroit welfare authorities $269 received during 1927-28 (TIME, Nov. 4). For cheating while on relief and living in ease on others who work you've got to be white...