Word: hard-fought
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...John Henry Lewis, Negro pugilist: a sensationally hard-fought 15-round fight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Italian Al Ettore, with whom last month he fought a draw; by the deciding vote of Referee Leo Houck, when the judges disagreed; in Philadelphia...
...current American tradition of tearng down one's opponent's goal posts after a hard-fought football game has occurred here only once this season, during the Harvard-Dartmouth game. No one was hurt in the melee...
...minutes later he amended this, adding: "Aside from [the attack on the Social Security Tax] I prefer to remember this campaign not as bitter but only as hard-fought. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America...
Scoring a hard-fought 13-12 victory over Lowell Tuesday afternoon, the Kirkland eleven will challenge Winthrop supremacy today. Only one point behind the Puritans and with a win counting two points, victory for the Deacons means that they will meet Yale in the annual House-College gridiron struggle...
Meanwhile the Second Freshman team defeated the M.I.T. Sophomore squad, 18-12 yesterday in a close, hard-fought game. With the count all tied up at 12 all in the fourth period, Lutz intercepted an Engineer pass on the Crimson 30-yard line, and coasted up to the M.I.T. 20. At that point he flipped a lateral to Roosevelt, who went over for the winning score...