Word: meteoric
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After the gong, Carpentier closed with his opponent; there was some fierce pumelling in which Townley suffered. Just before the end of the round Townley gave Carpentier the opening for which he had been waiting. Like a meteor in the night, the Frenchman's right shot out to the Englishman's jaw and the gong left him prone...
Questioned regarding the revival of boxing in South America, and the evident adulation accorded Firpo after his meteor-like rise in American boxing circles, Mr. Hopkins declared that much of Firpo's popularity has vanished after his humiliating defeat by the American champion...
Accusation. (Flame like a meteor to the troubled...
...awful portent as Bardolph's flaming nose, perhaps dire prediction of the approaching eruption of such active volcanoes as Mount Borah, Mount La Follotte and Mount Hiram Johnson. But distance lends enchantment and observers who were not distant noon pricked this loinantie bubble of would-be anthology. The meteor proved to be nothing but a negro, dressed like Mephistopheles in crimson tights and tunic and hitched to a parachute. Which does not mean that the awful voices of Mounts Borah, La Follette and Johnson will not "thunder as before...
...Lecture "The Meteor Crater in Arizona," by Professor William F. Magie of Princeton University in the large lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...