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Word: gaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Biling up a decisive lead in the early minutes of the game yesterday, the Gore Hall quintet defeated Falcon Club, 27 to 20, and captured the intramural basketball championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GORE HALL QUINTET DEFEATS FALCON CLUB FOR TOP HONORS | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...fraternity basketball championship was decided Saturday afternoon when Falcon Club outscored Kappa Sigma 20 to 10, to win the final game of the league. The victors now have only the Gore Hall quintet standing between themselves and the intramural title; they will face the Freshmen in the Freshman Gymnasium at 5 o'clock in what promises to be the feature game of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALCON AND GORE QUINTETS WILL VIE FOR TITLE TODAY | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Shipstead−"His paucity of achievement, his colossal bombast, his lack of aggressiveness, his ardent playing of the political and social game, are a complete summary of the worth and role of the entire Progressive group, with exception of Norris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progressives Flayed | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...year contract to promote boxing bouts with Humbert J. Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carey, Dempsey & Fugazy | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...work on a $41,000,000 railroad through the Andes mountains for the Bolivian Government. He also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carey, Dempsey & Fugazy | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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