Word: matted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese, but we have organized among the 12,000,000 people in our area a mass hatred of the Japanese Army, hammered home daily by orators, dramatic troupes, atrocity posters, village newspapers and in 4,200 primary schools. Politically we already have Japan with both shoulders to the mat...
Gargantua is a big boy but a Dempsey left hook landing on his stomach might figuratively tear the poor animal in two. . . . He didn't spend years doing bending and mat exercises. A man has 24 ribs. Your encyclopedia will tell you that a gorilla has but 13. Between the ribs, below the breastbone, there are nerve centres. If they are shocked the shock travels to the spine, temporarily causing paralysis. The ribs, and well developed muscles between the ribs, protect these nerve centres. Twenty-four ribs are much more protection than...
...railroad empire. William Potter is board chairman of Guaranty Trust Co., which holds, as collateral on bonds now in technical default, Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp., middle link in the chain between Alleghany and rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Financiers Young and Potter have been on the mat for months to see which shall dominate C. & O. (TIME, April...
Against Taylor the Crimson powerhouse had some trouble in bringing his man down, but once on the mat he easily held the advantage and gained several near falls. It was a referee's decision...
STATE COLLEGE, PENNA., March 25--Captain John Harkness '38, of the Crimson grapplers, Eastern Intercollegiate 175-pound mat champion, worked his way into the semi-finals of the N.C.A.A. wrestling championships by defeating Jim Taylor, Cornell College (Iowa) in the second round this afternoon and Wesley Leverich, Illinois, in the quarter-finals this evening...