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Word: punch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without glamour." No real man would be a movie actor," she expanded. Of the numerous famous characters of the sports world she has interviewed, Max Baer is tops. But even the popular play-boy prize-fighter comes in for his share of Marsters' abuse as being "dizzy" and "punch-drunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Marsters Admits Old Fascination For Undergraduates but Thrill Is Gone | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

Carl Van Doren, book review editor of the Boston Herald, was guest at a punch and reception held at the Advocate House by the Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Reception | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

Since that edging they took during the punch-drunk-prom weekend at New Haven the Elis have been going to town, and Georgetown and Penn State are among their more recent victims. Both of these schools have good clubs, and Penn State is right up in that Western league which numbers teams like Pitts among its members. Yale is no man's snap. That Senior triumvirate of Kelley, Beckwith and Miles is really going to town, and when they clash with Bill Gray, Red Lowman and company, another thrilling game is sure to result. It will be the climax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/11/1937 | See Source »

...knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance to win the lightweight championship currently held by awkward, indefatigable Lou Ambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Don Diablo | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

Verdict: the Manchukuo Supreme Court ordered "the release of the accused from the accusation on the grounds of an amnesty." Winding up the story with a gruesome punch, Pravda said that the White Guards who thus go scot free murdered the Jewish orchestra leader after kidnapping him, sending his father "your son's ears to show we mean business," and attempting vainly to get by these means 300,000 yen for their revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Yen for Revolution | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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