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Word: purvey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Kaplan applied an other left to the body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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