Word: punching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing a six to six tie with the Holy Cross yearlings last Monday, the 1934 team has shown good fielding and plenty of batting punch. Harvard Andover J. Ware, c.f. s.s., Woodlock Lee, l.f. 2b., Darling N. Ware, s.s. r.f., Howard Lupien, r.f. 3b., Meighen Smith, 2b. lb., Foreman Beale, 3b. l.f., Raynor Murphy, lb. c.f., King Hines, c. c., O'Neil De Give, Hayes, Lawn or Strong. p p. Smith
...generation elapsed before Uncle Sam appeared as a cartoon character. In 1844 London Punch published a personification of the U. S. (called Brother Jonathan) as a young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew...
...amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride of English debaters. Last week Cox Swartwout argued...
Treating the weekend crowd to an exhibition of air-tight baseball, the Crimson nine made it two in a row this year over a powerful Pennsylvania aggregation when it duplicated its 3-1 victory of last month. Captain McGrath's triple and Wood's circuit clout provided the necessary punch to edge the solitary tally that the Quakers were able to eke out against the crafty delivery of the red-haired Harvard moundsman, MacHale...
Ever since its exhibition at London's Leicester Galleries two months ago, Sculptor Jacob Epstein's white marble Genesis has moved critics and letters-to-the-Times writers to a frenzy of denunciation. "You white foulness!" the Daily Express called it. Punch published tut-tutting cartoons. Last week the U. S. art world learned that the tide had turned. Genesis had found favorable reviews, and a purchaser. Opined the Manchester Guardian...