Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like an enormous hurt animal. This time Baer hit him three hard cracks before he went sprawling again. The courage which made Carnera get up once more gave dignity to the end of an otherwise brutal comedy. To the referee he mumbled something which he later denied was a request to stop the fight. The referee stepped in front of him, raised Baer's hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough...
...school or the Reformatory. A common or garden variety of child was he, the kind that hides his food under his knife to feel his mother. His career in the secondary scats of learning was also uneventful, its monotonous rhythm being broken only by occasional changes of school on request of the headmasters, and flying visits to the jailhouse. Entering college Carlos ran for a while like a flywheel, and got off to a Huppuch start, good marks were his at November hours and mid-years. This success immediately went to his head. With delight be silenced the silver voice...
...Jensen. He said he was a Danish seaman. While he was serving his ten days in jail, his fingerprints were sent to the Department of Justice's division of criminal identification in Washington. When he was let out, he was promptly clapped back in again, at the request of the Federal Government, as a fugitive from justice...
...whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special request) bathtubs...
...Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...