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Word: lightweights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often battered, seldom beaten Henry Armstrong, 36, who eleven years ago held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), and more recently has been managing fighters, announced in California that he intends to take a punch at the devil. He expects soon to be ordained a Baptist minister, tour the country preaching to sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Jordan's strength this year appears to center around the middle weights; the lightweight men may or may not come through; men in the light heavy and heavyweight divisions are wrestling out of their weight classes and it is hard to say how they will fare against stiff competition...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight who is used to fill out the classic triangle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Lightweight boxing champion Ike Williams was suspended by the National Boxing Association yesterday for failing to honor a contract for a fight with Bernard Docusen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...flood of aliens." Michigan's Homer Ferguson patiently refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance to aid their cause. At one time, only one Senator was left on the floor to hear North Dakota's William Langer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Victory by Delay | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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