Word: mats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class B battle is expected to be close this year. Providence Central High School was the winner a year ago but the school has only entered two men this year, M. Soltysiak and E. Wilde, whereas a year ago Mat Chrostowski and Johnny Higgins also swam for that school...
...there. Dragged away, Wrestler Robert sat at the ringside, heckled the champion who was downing Judson with ease. O'Mahoney, stung by the verbal pricks of this upstart, demanded an immediate settlement. Spang into the ring flounced Challenger Robert, collared O'Mahoney, held his shoulders to the mat for 30 seconds. The Irishman kicked himself free, floored the Canadian with two blows. Up Robert rose, bashed O'Mahoney through the ropes. While pawky Wrestler Robert loudly claimed the championship, O'Mahoney was lugged unconscious to his dressing room, still the champion...
...publishing phenomena they are not confined to the lay press, but trade journals and business dailies hew closer to the record, indulge in less unadulterated opinion. Preparations for fat year-end business supplements often begin two months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most of the space-filling articles are contributed free by tycoons, sub-tycoons and assistant sub-tycoons. Most of their stuff is "ghosted" by hirelings. The week of business reviews is the one time...
...world interest, Regent Tafari in 1926 shamed and reproved white men thus: "We should never have suspected that the British Government would come to an agreement with another government regarding our Lake Tana!" Ethiopia quietly won the first League round then & there, causing Italy and Britain to drop the mat ter, much as the Hoare-Laval Deal was to be dropped nearly a decade later with a crash heard around the world (TIME...
...heart and lungs to find how many strokes he could stand. Then, before the sunset a regimental parade was held in the drilling yard of the barracks or on the main square of the camp, the guilty soldier lay prone at the centre on a piece of rush mat or burlap, surrounded by the commanding officers and the rows of the armed units. The regimental band of music begins to play. Two corporals press the shoulders of the victim and two the thighs...