Word: max
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inimitable Max...
...Chevrolet were to win the world's heavyweight championship! So, one moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...
...nationwide renaissance of bow-&-arrow hunting and fishing. Several States (notably Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, Oregon) have set aside preserves exclusively for bow-&-arrow hunters. A hunting bow is usually 5 ft. 4 in. long, has a 45 to 75-lb. pull, costs from $12 to $40. Prize Fighter Max Schmeling keeps in condition with a bow & arrow...
...refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...
Well-liked by publishers, Max Salop is regarded as one of the best credit risks in the trade. To one of them he once sent a check made out for "one tusan dollars.'' The check was good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week...