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Word: lightweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lightweight contest, Crew D, after trailing B by a quarter of a length to the bridge, pulled up at the end of the race to win by two feet. Crew C was several lengths behind at the finish, never being in a position to threaten the leaders. On Thursday the three shells which raced today will have another brush, this time with the regular crew also rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-POUND D AND SMITH EIGHTS WIN IN REGATTA | 5/19/1926 | See Source »

...Lightweight Crews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN WINTHROP PULLS STROKE OAR | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

...informal race on the Basin yesterday, Coach Newell's first 150-pound crew, stroked by Captain Merrill, just nosed out the second lightweight eight with Atwater setting the beat. Pregot's third 150-pound crew was two lengths behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPTAIN WINTHROP PULLS STROKE OAR | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

Scudder, who only weighs 150 pounds, was on the lightweight squad early in the season, but was promoted to the third University crew a short while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCUDDER REPLACES NITZE AS STROKE OF SECOND CREW | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

...effect. It lands fearfully on the point of a jaw, and the recipient smiles and shakes his head as if a drop of water had landed on him. This is usually enough to discourage most sockers. In Buffalo last week, it discouraged Jimmy Goodrich, who was at the moment lightweight champion of the world. He had just socked Rocky Kansas, challenger, flush on the button. It was the middle of the second round. Throughout the first, Rocky (a hairy 133-pound bullyboy, battered and be-cauliflowered by innumerable brawls) had come plunging in at a pace that would surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goodrich v. Kansas | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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