Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bert Haines is optimistic about the prospects of the Varsity and Freshman 150-lb crews. Along with the 1938 lightweight Henley eight which returns this year almost intact there is a powerful Freshman aggregation, promising to give the Varsity a good battle...
...intervening eleven months, 25-year-old Henry Armstrong had snatched the featherweight (126 Ib.) championship away from Petey Sarron (by a knockout), then, jumping right over the lightweight class, had punched the welterweight (147 Ib.) crown off Barney Ross's head. The first pugilist to hold both the featherweight and the welterweight titles at the same time, ambitious Henry Armstrong last week went back to get Lou Ambers' lightweight (135 Ib.) crown...
...appear no more fatigued than if he had spent an evening at a Harlem shindig. He has fought on an average of twice a month in the past year, has knocked out 35 of his last 38 opponents. Most fight fans agreed that the little Iron Man would hammer Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers into submission in jig time...
...Garden was yelling for a game fighter. After the 15th round, when Referee Billy Cavanagh held up Armstrong's arm in victory (a decision boisterously booed from the gallery), Henry Armstrong was so exhausted that he probably could not have pronounced his own title: World's Featherweight -Lightweight -Welterweight Champion...
...casing-head process," next by "cracking," finally by hydrogenation. Cracking, of which hydrogenation is a continuation, consists of breaking down the molecular structure of heavy crude oil into a number of lighter, more salable derivatives such as kerosene and gasoline. Polymerization is the reverse; it takes the very lightweight, gaseous fractions of petroleum, which were formerly wasted or used only in restricted ways,* and through pressure, heat and catalytic agents builds them into heavier molecules for high-test (antiknock) gasoline...