Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck of the Irish. Lightweight fun, lightly handled, about a leprechaun in Manhattan, with Cecil Kellaway, Anne Baxter, Tyrone Power (TIME...
...backfield men have also seen backer-up service in the weeks of practice. Mel Freedman, who moved up from the Jayvees in mid-season last year, has proved durable in the position; and Phil Isenburg, a scrappy lightweight, has also worked out behind the line. Both Freedman and Isenburg are quarterbacks...
Newsmen trooped into the sprawling plant of Continental Motors Corp. in Detroit last week to see a highly touted "revolution." The revolution turned out to be a new, lightweight, air-cooled engine developed by Continental for Army Ordnance. As Continental's President Clarence ("Jack") Reese unveiled it, he predicted that the new engine would first revolutionize the building of motors for U.S. Army tanks and motor vehicles, then commercial trucks and buses, and that ultimately it would drive a cheaper, high-powered...
Battling Nelson, the Durable Dane, lightweight champion from 1908 to 1910, conqueror of Young Corbett and Joe Gans in boxing's palmy days, shuffled out of Cook County Hospital, Chicago, after a five-day bout with pneumonia, back to his job as a mail clerk...
...none of it. Recently he blew in the last big chunk on a flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...