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...Harlem's coffee-colored Ray Robinson; a prize fight with Welterweight Maxie Berger of The Bronx; scoring a technical knockout in 1 min. 43 sec. of the second round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For Robinson, "the little Joe Louis," it was the 28th victory in a row since he turned professional a little more than a year ago. His next opponent will probably be Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Other winners in the finals were Tom Bartlett in the 165 and Cecil Robinson, who was awarded the only, technical knockout of the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Men Win Crown In Inter-House Boxing | 2/20/1942 | See Source »

...perform their germicidal miracles by preferentially anesthetizing disease bacteria so that they are easily overpowered by the body's natural defenses.) When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression of the solution restored the glow. But pressure will not restore luminescence blacked out by sulfa compounds, chloral hydrate ("knockout drops") and some other drugs. (Conclusion: most narcotics put the enzyme molecules out of action by loosening their structure which can be put together again, but the sulfa drugs, chloral hydrate, etc., change the chemical composition of the enzyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution by Cooperation | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Next Steps. To secure a quick knockout in the South Pacific the Imperial Fleet has a hard and dirty way ahead. It must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Yamamoto v. the Dragon | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Last week Robinson kept his promise. On his toes like a ballet dancer, he out-stepped and outsmarted foxy Fritzie, tantalized him with lightning-quick punches from unexpected angles, landed one in the fifth round that nearly chalked up his 21st knockout in 26 pro fights. The new Negro wonder can hit equally hard with either hand, can throw a punch faster than Joe Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boogie-Woogie Bomber | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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