Word: fistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between the U. S. and Russia since the War. Other A. E. L. ships will follow at ten-day intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused...
...fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking the spice out of the intelligentsia. His fistic traditions should prompt him to pick on something his own size...
Last year the final matches were attended by 600 fistic enthusiasts from the University...
...class for beginners has been recently formed, and lessons in the rudiments of the fistic art are being taught to the new men. The class was organized as the result of the increased number of boxing aspirants, who would find it difficult to practice with the more advanced fighters. Classes for the novices are held on Monday. Wednesday, and Friday from 4 to 4.45 o'clock...
...regular boxing classes began in November and the participants in them have already progressed far enough to make it difficult for a novice to start in them on an equal basis. In order to provide an opportunity for more new men to learn the rudiments of the fistic art, the athletic authorities have organized the post-vacation class...