Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...
Dave Coombs, new to the top floor of the black house, has shouldered the lightweight load and carried it far, pinning his three opponents for the high score, and only perfect record, of the season...
...years of boxing, Bob Montgomery had earned more than $250,000, and put most of it away. He had won 47 of his 103 pro fights by knockouts, had twice been recognized by the New York Commission as world lightweight champion. Last August, Ike Williams knocked him out and took the title away from him. Since then, Montgomery had dropped two decisions...
...undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...
Dowd will doff his clerk-of-course appellation to challenge Day on the strength of his runner-up position last summer in a close meeting with Day as a lightweight oarsman...