Word: punch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a right and he went down again. Schmeling confidently turned to a neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling's famed "Sunday punch," and each time rose ready to fight. The crowd, sickened by the sight, screamed "Stop it, stop it." Referee Donovan stepped between the two and beckoned Schmeling to a neutral corner...
Though they come from the ends of the earth," they telephone their lawyers. A good punch on the nose of one or the other of the two men would have settled the leadership of the Rhode Island Decocracy more quickly than the present litigation, which will drag out for years and leave the victorious merely the man whose legal crutch contains the smallest percentage of rubber...
MrMr. Herbert, famed for his verse contributions to Punch, next delighted the House with these especially written lines...
Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Because of his scoring punch and all-around play in past seasons Lowman will apparently have little difficulty in retaining his starting position on the front line...