Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When planes attack, they travel about three times 33 miles an hour. There's a little difference in shooting at a slowly moving target and trying to hit one going 100 mi. an hour...
...Manhattan, a Hebrew lean as a knife-blade was introduced to a squat Italian. Instantly the Italian tried to hit the Hebrew in the face. A furious scuffle ensued, continued. Some twelve minutes later a doctor was bending anxiously above the Italian-one Edward Shea of Chicago-while the Hebrew-Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg- remained bantamweight champion of the world. It had been an unusual fight for the reason that Rosenberg, though cannier than his challenger, disdained to employ the artful dodges of science, but traded punches with the wild-eyed, bloody-mouthed, berserk Shea. Many who saw the little...
English manufacturers have to pay just as much as Americans, but since the "U. S. is using 70% of the world's rubber supply, she is hard hit. Two years ago the U. S. paid less than $200,000,000 for British rubber. This year the rubber bill will probably go over $400,000,000 - two and a half times as much as Great Britain pays the U. S. annually on her War debt...
...mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without relief for three interminable minutes. "Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire...
...minutes oars went back and were pulled forward. Then - bump! Hoover's craft hit that of Beresford. "In the heat of the race," he afterward said, "I judged . . that Beresford was crowding in to my water and I thought: 'If you think you can get away with that, I'm going for you. And I did. I see now I was mistaken...