Word: huffman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charged with the assault of a New Jersey contractor named Harry Green (TIME. May 3), was stalled because Green had not yet recovered from the wounds he received in ''God's Kingdom No. 1." -In 1916 an optometrist of Youngstown, Ohio named Dr. Harman G. Huffman fasted 59 days to cure his heart trouble, died of starvation. In 1920 Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork lasted 74 days before dying of starvation as a political gesture...
...John R. Huffman, researcher in Chemistry at Columbia University; for the third successive year the national three-weapon (foil, épée, sabre) fencing championship of the U. S. from a field of 29; at the Fencers Club, New York. ¶West Point's polo team: its 27th consecutive victory, beating Yale, 12-to-9: at West Point...
...have since pushed steadily to the top. A stocky left-hander who moves surprisingly fast for his build, Alessandroni won the foils title in 1934, was runner-up last year. Tied for first place with the defending champion, Joseph L. Levis, and the national three-weapon champion, John R. Huffman, he made spectacular use of the parry-riposte, beat them both in a triple fence-off last week. Tall, willowy Norman Armitage, who sports a little waxed mustache, had little difficulty in taking his third straight sabre title...
...close of the meet, Huffman, Yale captain, apologized to Olney for the decisions and at the time the referee announced the Olney-Huffman out come, the audience attending the meet, composed largely of Yale students, rose and booed the decision for several minutes...
...might have been in error for years through some slip long since forgotten, asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules Committee for the correct interpretation of the rules and were informed that by unanimous vote of the Committee the Ellis-Loomis bout was a draw and that the Olney-Huffman bout should have been given to Olney, making the final score of the meet 5 1/2-2 1/2 for Harvard...