Word: foule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Williams, and his studies in Berlin and Strassburg. He was captain and catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
...lasted two minutes, 38 seconds. In them, Doyle had time to fetch Baer one resounding whack on the jaw. Baer had time to hit Doyle below the belt and then, because New York Commission rules prevent referees from stopping a fight on a foul, to floor his opponent twice and win by a technical knockout...
Meanwhile the official Press strove last week to slow down Russia's present race for divorces. Thundering against Bolshevik fathers and mothers who were jamming the Zags, the Government news-organ Izvestia cried: "Soviet children must be protected from despicable and foul people...
...their mouths with 30% solution of alcohol in water, with no better results. Then "by washing the teeth and tongue and rinsing the mouth with a solution of chloramine" they "immediately and completely rid" themselves of the odors. Last week they advised: "It is probable that many cases of foul breath from other causes would be amenable to the same treatment...
Baer lost the fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...