Word: fistically
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...boxing season at the University opened yesterday under the tutelage of Lawrence Conley new fistic mentor at Hemenway gymnasium. Sixty men have signed up for the sport, several of them University champions from last winter's open tournament...
Lawrence Conley has been named to succeed William Shevlin as, boxing instructor at the University. Conley was instructor of boxing at Harvard several years ago but resigned in order to manage professional pugilists. In the eventuality of a boxing team, Conley's extensive experience in the fistic world makes him well suited for the position of coach...
Engaged. Lord Sholto George Douglas, third son of the late famed fistic arbiter, John Sholto Douglas, eighth marquess of Queensberry; to Mrs. Mendelssohn Pickles, mother of famed Australian airplane test pilot Sydney Pickles...
Unsatisfied with the news value of multifarious marine endeavors and fistic combats the athletic minded journalists have started the fall season with blurbs about a future war to the tooth, or whatsoever, between two ancient and honorable universities, Princeton and Harvard. To allay any fears on the part of pacifists who read such public prints and to deploy the endeavors of speculators into other and more hopeful channels it may be definitely stated that there...
...hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful. He is not agile. He is not even particularly strong, but long hours spent in the practice of his profession have given this virtue: he is hard to hurt. He absorbs, without feeling them, blows that would decimate an ordinary citizen...