Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight experts only grinned and shrugged off Challenger Johansson, 26, as a good, clean-cut Swedish kid, an import of blue-eyed, dimpled innocence who would be diced into smorgasbord by the flashing attack of Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson. Nobody was impressed by the fact that Johansson was undefeated in his 21 fights, last year had demolished No. 1 Contender Eddie Machen with the very same right. European heavyweights, however upright their intentions, traditionally have been horizontally inclined against American champions. And Patterson, 24, camping in a grubby New Jersey shack, grimly punishing himself in training with everything...
...Crimson's varsity heavyweight eight meets the London Rowing Club in the first round of eliminations for the Grand Challenge Cup, the principle event of the regatta...
...story was principally intended as a lightener at a heavyweight symposium on basic scientific research. But it served to point up as serious a message as he has ever delivered. "In my public service," said he, "I have found myself increasingly involved with problems and policies affected by the growth* and impact of science and technology-[now] the cornerstones of American security and American welfare." In short, the day is at hand when U.S. science and the U.S. Government have firmly joined hands to plot the nation's future...
...Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew lost its lead to Syracuse some 200 strokes from the finish line, then came on with a late burst to win by a scant 4 ft. in the 2,000-meter-sprint regatta of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges on Lake Carnegie at Princeton, N.J. A length behind the leaders, Yale finished third-its first rowing defeat since...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--The heavyweight varsity announced its claim as the ranking crew in the country Saturday, as it triumphed over a strong but outclassed Pennsylvania crew. The Penn freshmen and junior varsity dominated the wind-swept Annapolis race course, but the Crimson heavyweights salvaged the afternoon by defeating Penn, Navy, and Rutgers in the final race to carry off the Adams Cup for the fourth straight year...