Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nose. Caninamorous Bette is a pillar of the Tailwaggers' Foundation. // For an alleged kick and a blow with a golf club a caddy sued U.S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian (who autographs all paper money) for $10,000. // Errol Flynn collapsed with nervous exhaustion, was hospitalized in Hollywood. // Lightweight Champ Levy Jenkins got a collection of cuts and bruises when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took a nose dive. // C.I.O.'s Phil Murray left the Pittsburgh hospital where he had been since a heart attack July 13. // Dim-witted...
...drop of water. Therefore big mining companies (including Anaconda, Phelps Dodge, Cerro de Pasco) also have been seeking new industrial uses for silver as a hedge against possible repeal of the program. Some of their suggestions: substituting silver for copper in electrical contacts, using it with magnesium for lightweight alloys...
Young Conn, a handsome Irish toughie, brought up in Pittsburgh's brawl-proud East Liberty section, had been fighting since he was 14. He got his upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...Phil Wilson upset the dope by edging George Hurd, the favorite by a quarter length over the mile course. Harry Hammond took the Junior singles title for the three quarters, and Benny Hubbard upset the dope again by shading last year's 155-pound favorite, Beanie Gilchrist, in the lightweight division Hughes Call won the Nevice singles and Peter Gray the wherries...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that for the Goldthwait Cup, which brought to the starting line the undefeated lightweight Varsities of Yale and Princeton and the Crimson shell which had lost out to Tech by a scant two feet the week previous...