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Word: rayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring's center, Sugar Ray Robinson, making his first defense of the welterweight championship, took the victor's bow, but he did no victor's dance: his opponent lay in a coma, and a doctor was examining him. Later, in his dressing room, Robinson asked: "Is the kid up yet? The punch only traveled six inches, I think." Almost as he spoke stretcher-bearers were taking Jimmy Doyle from Cleveland's Arena. A few fans recalled the words that the Cleveland Press's Columnist Franklin Lewis wrote earlier that day about how things would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy's Last Fight | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...More Fight. Before he stepped into the ring against Sugar Ray, Jimmy promised his father that it would be his last fight-unless he won. He wanted enough money to go into business in California, managing and training other fighters. Last week, 17 hours after Champion Robinson flattened him, 22-year-old Jimmy Doyle died of a cerebral hemorrhage, the first death in a championship fight in modern U.S. boxing history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jimmy's Last Fight | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Pattern. In London, early in the war, Flight Lieut. Ray Amherst Scott was granted a divorce. Grounds: his wife had committed adultery with one Arthur Williams. Scott remarried her in 1943, was just granted another divorce. Grounds: adultery again with the same Arthur Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Burch and Ray were astonished to discover how sensitive even normal people are. Possible plethysmograph use: spotting the root of a neurotic patient's trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sensitive Finger Tips | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Welterweight Boxing Championship (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC). Champion Ray Robinson v. Jimmy Doyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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