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Word: lightweights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Lightweight Paul Runyan, whose tee shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Little Poison | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...members of the crew are financing their own trip and are entered in the Thames Cup Race as the "Harvard University Lightweight Crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "LIGHTWEIGHT CREW" LEAVES TOMORROW FOR HENLEY RACES | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...must pay 33⅓% to Manager Mead and 10% to the original Harry Armstrong, who is now his trainer and poses as his brother. Signed up by Promoter Mike Jacobs for the next three years, Armstrong's next match will be with Lou Ambers next month for the lightweight (135 Ib.) championship of the world. If he wins it, as most experts expect, he will be the only fighter ever simultaneously to hold three titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armstrong v. Ross | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Bert Haines has rounded out his raw Sophomore material in significantly short order this year and believes he has one of the best lightweight boats ever to emerge from Newell. The Blue oarsmen on the other hand are mostly experienced Juniors who experts believe, have already reached their peak this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Fifties Eight Will Row in Henley Regatta | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

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