Word: getting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connors. Connors has plenty of experience and if he can get into and stay in good shape, he should fill his position adequately...
...today's trouble is coming from boxing. Until the second Joe Louis-Jersey Joe Walcott championship, the promoters were quite chummy with the television people, but in that championship bout the gate took a big beating when the fans en masse decided it was easier and cheaper to get a ringside view of the fight in their own living rooms or in the taverns for the price of a few beers...
...income citizens from all over Greater Boston will get free passes to the Dramatic Clubs' production of "Antigone" next week...
...effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to steal a lap on the opposition. He is given two minutes to do this and the number of points he gets depends on how many of the opposition he passes. In the meantime, the skaters on the team that has a jammer out try to slow down the members of the other team to keep them from catching the jammer; and when the jammer comes around, his buddies get...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...