Word: pusher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping, hard-hitting leather-pusher that he was when he qualified as a challenger. Critics eyeing his flabby lethargy toward the end of the encounter muttered: "Overtrained!" None disputed the decision given Berlenbach, even in newspapers of Stribling's native Georgia...
...therefore certain that on Wednesday the Pen-pusher and the this will line upon Soldiers Field in full regalia. But upon learning that the wearers of the Crimson had again decided to comply with a precedent of sixteen years and would probably defeat Lampy by the usual overwhelming score of 23-2, the spirits of the this became immediately damponed. The saturation point, it is announced, will be reached at three o'clock Wednesday...