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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prizefighters' Brains | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

...punch of "That's Gratitude" depends mainly on the "business" and the ability of Holmes and Nugent to keep the sympathy of the audience and maintain a nice, homey atmosphere. On this basis, the show is a complete success. In fact, its just a clean, action less, drama-less domestic comedy, and, as remarked before this is praise to some folks and poison to others...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/10/1933 | See Source »

...tried farming in Jamaica, later managed the Cartagena-Magdalena Railway in Colombia (which United Fruit has just taken over from the government). In 1908 he became a director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: United Fruit Obeys | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...Gawd, this job is no snap, believe it or not," grunted Theodore Hilton, domestic at a well-known country club in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hilton was still puffing from his exertions in preventing three merry youths at the dance from pouring punch down the bass horn. They're good, spirited lads I used to get that way myself once," he murmured sadly. "These winter dances are hard work for as waiters: we sure earn our pay. For instance, inside of ten minutes tonight I had to run down cellar and turn off a carbon dioxide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Country Club Waiter Marvels at Antics of Ebullient Youth At Terpsichorean Frolics--Thinks Debs Lack Something | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

From the first period it was inevitable that the Crimson, fortified by a new scoring punch, would pile up a big total. Not only was the Crimson play distinguished by an air-tight defense, but Baldwin-Putnam scoring combination was working with great effectiveness, and Pruyn's solo dashes that continually split the Bruin defense-zone gave the Crimson an evident superiority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SWAMPS BRUINS IN UNEVEN HOCKEY TILT, 15-3 | 1/18/1933 | See Source »

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