Word: julians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trainer. For his first professional fight, in Chicago's Bacon's Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked...
...Gran Chaco is rated a "green hell" by romantic Author-Explorer Julian Duguid. Actually it is a great variegated basin extending from northern Argentina to eastern Bolivia. The disputed section is a liver-shaped area bounded by the Paraguay and Pilcomayo Rivers. At the Paraguayan edge it is grassy and open, the soil sandy and dry. Farther west the jungle swamps and lagoons begin, follow the sluggish, unnavigable Pilcomayo to the south, dot the drowned lands to the north. Still farther west, verging into Bolivia's Andean foothills, the land changes again to open woodland, broken by fertile plains...
Died. Field Marshal Sir Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy, 72, Wartime hero of Vimy Ridge and Cambrai, onetime (1921-26) Governor General of Canada; of heart failure following an emergency abdominal operation; at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, England...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
...dinner, which was attended by practically all members of the council, numbered among its guests of honor President Conant and Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics and master of Lowell House. Additional guests were Moses W. Ware '02, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Edward M. Rowe '27, coach of Debating, and Paul C. Reardon '32, Donald M. Sullivan '33, and Asa E. Phillips '34, former presidents of the Council...