Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuesday's activities meeting, the Freshman class will hear representatives of most of the many undergraduate organizations, from mountain climbing to stamp collecting, outline the aims and purposes of their organizations and explain how new comers may join. The speakers will be introduced by Ray A. Goldberg '48, who emphasized the importance of this meeting to new students wishing to leaven their first year's work with outside activities. PBH punch will also be served at this meeting...
...cheerfully with sunken tubs with 15 faucets in a panel, the diving bats, the sleek grey rats. (The Overseas News Agency's Robert Gary put one rat out of action with a well-aimed copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) The New York Times's Ray Daniell and radio's nervous Bill Shirer were less patient. They reached the high note of indignation when they went to complain about a powdered-egg breakfast and found the German staff eating steak...
...Sugar" Ray Robinson is a miniature Joe Louis: nobody wants to fight him either. The big difference between Sugar Ray and Joe-besides 60 pounds-is that Joe is a champ. But last week, Sugar Ray, the hard-luck guy of boxing, was all set to get a champion's chance...
Sportswriters had been calling Sugar Ray the uncrowned world welterweight champ for so long that the phrase came out of their typewriters automatically. But through the war years, an amiable, not too able fighter named Red Cochrane had the title frozen. When it came time to defend it last February, Red passed up Sugar Ray, who was first in line, fought one Marty Servo, who had put up $50,000 for the chance. Marty took the title by a knockout. Last week Sugar Ray was 1-to-5 betting favorite to whip Marty Servo...
...redfaced New York Athletic Commission, as fed up as Sugar Ray was, promptly took the title away from Servo, ordered an elimination among other welterweights to see who would fight Robinson. The winner would be champion of the state of New York only: the National Boxing Association still called Servo champion. Said Sugar Ray: "I've waited so long it's not new any more...