Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lamar's classes for beginners consist of about 15 minutes of calisthenics, about 15 minutes of shadow boxing and footwork practice, and about seven minutes of training in punching and blocking. At present the beginners are working on the left jab to the head...
...absolute safety from this stingaree, every buyer of goods for resale would have to maintain his own national inspection staff. Of course the Wage and Hour Administration intends to jab Section 15 only into suspected conspirators. Nevertheless, Section 15 may well become as famous...
Novelist Ernest Hemingway, refereeing a Negro prizefight at Key West, Fla. was counting out one of the fighters when a Negro second threw in a towel. Referee Hemingway threw it out. The second jumped into the ring, swung at the referee. Mr. Hemingway gave him a left jab to the chin, twisted his ear. Said Referee Hemingway, "He must have lost his head...
Most rugged individuals deplore Fascism without being able to do anything more about it. Not so one rugged individual named Arturo Toscanini. Last week, as the world and his wife cluck-clucked helplessly over Nazi activities in Austria (see p. 19) the bantamweight maestro got in a smart jab to his old enemy's musical midriff. Salzburg is in Austria, and since Maestro Toscanini has been conducting there (since 1934) in its annual summer festival, Salzburg has taken much of the tourist cake from, its Bavarian rival, Bayreuth. Last week Toscanini cabled from Manhattan that he would have nothing...
...parting jab, the editors twitted the University for spending $50,000 for two bronze rhinoceroses to stand in front of the biological laboratories last year. They suggested that the money could have been used for a more worthy purpose...