Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavyweight championship fight, in the Miami arena last week, this was an amazing beginning. Weeks of intensive sneers in the Press had led them to believe that the bout between a 270-lb. champion from Italy and a challenger who was five years older and 86 Ib. lighter was as unfair as it sounded. Now, on a windy evening with rain pattering on rows and rows of empty $20 seats, they became aware that the spectacle under the warm cone of light at the centre of the Madison Square Garden stadium was an exciting contest between a clever, courageous boxer...
...Privatsekretaerin," the other picture, is one of the earlier German movies, released in 1931 and has in it the charming Renate Mueller who has been seen in many of the lighter musicals...
...wdnt. be half the scrap if the odds were any lighter against one. Ezra Pound...
Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...
...offer Harvard's star 165-pounder plenty of opposition. Brown's other strong entrants are in the 126 and 145-pound classes. Edward T. Farley '36 will meet Captain Leslie Smith in the 145-pound class, and Howland B. Stoddard '36 will face Edward Falciglia of Brown in the lighter division...