Word: maximize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
...designers. Quiet, scholarly, he set up the first aerodynamics research center in 1918, together with Professor Zhukovsky four years later built his first airplane, a timber and plywood single-engine monoplane. Has turned out 30 major planes from light puddle-jumpers to 1934's lumbering, eight-engine Maxim Gorky (which crashed after a few flights). Exiled during the purges, he came back in 1942 to design attack bombers (TU-2) for the Red air force. Greatest engineering feat: copying the U.S. B29, getting it in limited production within a year. Reportedly working on a Russian turboprop version...
Light Heavyweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio and TV). Joe Maxim v. Bob Murphy...
...Rear Admiral Maxim Skriganov...
...What a Pity that Kolya . . ." Such were Bunin's friends. His enemies were Russian writers who preferred a pampered life in the Soviet Union to weedy exile. One such was Maxim Gorky, who "walked lightly, toes first, with a certain slinking gracefulness typical, if I may say so, of thieves...