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Word: pounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs of a flyweight, the shoulders of a lightweight, the forearms of a middleweight. Somewhere in those forearms there was an arsenal of TNT. Seven of his opponents in a row had fallen like tenpins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweetwater Swatter | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Behind Bars | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year-old Inman Jackson, a 6 ft. 3 in. 200-pounder, who serves as the only substitute on the team, gets $300 a month plus a percentage of the gate receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Captain Lee Ackerman of the Yardling grapplers won a decision in the 165 class from W. H. Ober '41 to warm up for his bout with Ray Stone in the 175-pounder group. This fight was the feature of the evening, and Ackerman finally edged out a decision to take the two crowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEE ACKERMAN '43 WINS TWO WRESTLING CROWNS | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...months ago, Houston-born James Newton Demaret, an apple-cheeked, happy-go-lucky 200-pounder, was just another golf pro named Jimmy. Like most professional golfers, he was born on the wrong side of the fairway, worked as caddy, caddy master and assistant pro before getting a job as head pro at Houston's Bras-Burn Country Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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