Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to these two stars, the Quakers have a sensational sophomore distance man in Rual del Valle of Cuba, who is scheduled to give Dario Berizzi a tough fight in the 440-yard free style swim. However, the Penn team is weak in breast and backstroke, so Crimson record-breakers Jameson and Cummin should come through without much trouble in those events...
...throw; he won that event with a 48.1 1-2 over Cornell, but he did a 51 foot heave in practice the other day and will be on or near the top in the Briggs Cage. Edward Ethridge is good in the broad jump, and he is going to fight it out with Dartmouth's Warren King, a 22 foot man. Cornell, despite all their sprinters, hasn't been able to turn up any good broad jumpers, and no one has come along to fill Milt Green's shoes for the Crimson. Ethridge looks like the potential winner...
...boyish hearts thumped to the exploits of intrepid Pinkerton men in dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official ever again to employ a Pinkerton operative...
...work of all these men is very well known, the Whitney Museum went to great pains to see that the pictures and drawings honoring them should be comparatively new to the Manhattan art world. Pride of the museum is George Bellows' great canvas of the Dempsey-Firpo fight. Because it had been shown so many times, it was not included in the present exhibition. Borrowed from the Cleveland Museum to take its place was the equally important Stag at Sharkey's. So with the other artists: whenever possible, paintings and drawings were borrowed from collections which the public...
...John Henry Lewis, Negro pugilist: a sensationally hard-fought 15-round fight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Italian Al Ettore, with whom last month he fought a draw; by the deciding vote of Referee Leo Houck, when the judges disagreed; in Philadelphia...