Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors went about that Kearns had a contract in his pocket to manage Hudkins. These rumors kept betting down, but proved unfounded as soon as Walker's first rights and lefts thudded home. Before long Hudkins' coarse face, misshapen by the beatings he is accustomed to take even when he wins a fight, was made even more than normally ferocious by a red worm of blood that crawled down into his left eye. In the eighth round...
Beside doing most of the punting and passing. Fullback Bergherm carried the ball 26 times in 51 plays for a total gain of 91 yards to beat Illinois for the first time in 17 years. Northwestern 7, Illinois...
...outclassed Washington team fought spunkily through the first period, then tired. Carnegie Tech 19, Washington...
When he comes to the War, surprisingly, the author is much more restrained, more willing to let the facts indict themselves. He gives a plain, horrible account of the existence that unfitted George first for the conversation of his frippery London set and then for life itself. The climax has real inevitability...
...Author. This is Richard Aldington's first novel. He is known for criticism, translations and poems. His wife, Hilda Doolittle Aldington, is the Imagist poet...