Word: rater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contenders was 30-year-old Max Baer, onetime world's heavyweight champion who had not been in a ring for 15 months. The other was 24-year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling...
...number of paintings Picasso has produced vary from 1,200 to 10,000. Best guess is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,500. Since Rubens, with a whole "factory" of apprentices, turned out less than 3,000, it is likely that Picasso has been the most prolific first-rater who ever lived. In any logical system of supply and demand, a Picasso ought to be cheap. But Picassos are notoriously not cheap, and for this there are two explanations...
...suspense but the dramatic finality of this achievement by delaying it as long as possible. In the hope that doing so would prove a profitable venture, 20th Century Sporting Club dug up Schmeling who, since losing the title to Jack Sharkey and being thrashed by a second-rater named Steve Hamas, had stayed in Germany, making tentative gestures toward a comeback. What sort of chance fight experts and their audience thought Schmeling had was last week shown by the odds, 10-to-1, and by the comments of famed prizefight reporters. Samples...
...chances seemed to depend on winning both singles matches against England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison is a dependable, aggressive player who, though he loses most of his important matches, always works hard and makes his opponent do likewise. If he chose Allison, Captain Wear might not see his team win the Cup but at least it would be a close...
...Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked each of them out at least twice with oversized training gloves. Salient feature...