Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Weld isn't entirely uninhabited. Between 160 and 180 per day slip in unobtrusively to work out singly or under Haines' direction. The genial lightweight crew coach estimates that 60 percent are in the graduate schools...
...past spring Haines' Varsity crew went undefeated for the second straight year. Since they raced every lightweight boat in the world, they can claim an unofficial international championship to match the Varsity heavies' unofficial national championship...
...Leandro, Calif, last week, housewives were exploring a new kind of super market. They entered through pale lemon-yellow portals, found themselves surrounded by soothing pastel-green walls and bright, indirectly lighted murals of leaves and ferns. On the lightweight aluminum carts awaiting them, a printed directory told where everything could be found. On the way out, they were pleasantly surprised to find plenty of checkers who kept things moving. They were also surprised to discover how much they had bought; the light carts held 2½ times as much as the ordinary basket...
Business at cinemansion box offices was still far below the wartime boom. Variety blamed it on rain, premature summer and lightweight products...
...time, Benny Leonard (born Leiner) learned to fight in the streets of Manhattan's lower East Side. In his championship days he was so good on defense that he got through many a bout with his well-oiled hair still impeccably parted. He held the world's lightweight title from 1917 to 1925, when he retired undefeated because his mother told him to. Having lost most of his savings in the crash, he tried a comeback; it went the way of all boxers' comebacks and Jimmy McLarnin knocked...