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Word: lightweight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lightweight's race, scheduled for 5.30 o'clock, was not rowed until two hours later on account of a strong westerly wind which kicked up the water cast of Harvard bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TECH FALLS ASTERN IN BASIN BATTLES | 5/9/1929 | See Source »

Weather permitting, the two Harvard lightweight crews will match strokes with the first Tech 150-pound crew over the Henley course at 5.30 o'clock today Half an hour earlier the 1932 shell will lineup with the Engineers' first year eight ready to go over the new mile and three quarters course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crew Races Postponed | 5/8/1929 | See Source »

...cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming of a new philosophy of business as well as a ponderous rap at lightweight Wall Street gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gamblers Rapped | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with a lightweight championship battle−Sammy Mandell, the title holder, probably against Ray Miller of Chicago−to be held in Detroit, June 6. The Messrs. Dempsey and Fugazy say they will build themselves a coliseum comparable to Madison Square Garden within a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carey, Dempsey & Fugazy | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Following a race of the four University 150-pound crews this afternoon over the Henley course on the Charles River Basin, the first and second lightweight crews will be picked by Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 for the first race of the season at Kent School on Wednesday, April 10. After a series of short races this afternoon the Freshman squad will also undergo a rearrangement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-POUND CREWS WILL BE NAMED AFTER RACE | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

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