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...could only see-" Zivic slashed him with savage rights and lefts. Through five of the most brutal rounds ever seen in the Garden, Armstrong took his bloody punishment. In the 15th, more from a shove than a wallop, he toppled to the floor-just saved from a knockout by the final bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In the Fifteenth Round | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...refer to the article called "Campaign" [account of the Republican National Convention] under National Affairs in TIME of July 8. It is a knockout. It is modern literature at its very exciting best. I wish that every man, woman and child in the U. S. would read it. It is more than fine reporting, or perhaps it is reporting as an art, a fine art. It is an American saga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1940 | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Author Wolfe believes that Stalin signed the Moscow Pact with Oriental cunning. Others who read this book after the Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the Red Army overran Bucovina and Bessarabia while Hitler gazed benevolently in other directions, it looked as if Prophet Wolfe might be right again, at least for a little while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marche Slav | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...professional fights, last week's performance was Louis' 39th knockout, his eleventh successful defense (a record) of the title he took from Jim Braddock just three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louis Downs Another | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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