Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ellington, so no truly great matador was ever born north of the 40th parallel of latitude (about 30 miles south of Madrid), or south of Gibraltar. This tradition of Andalusian superiority suffered a heavy blow with the rise of the Madrileno Marcial Lalanda, the greatest money-maker in the ring few years ago. It suffered still more when a series of once despised Mexican matadors began coming to Spain, winning fat contracts and great salvos of applause.* Spain's matadors gravely considered the Mexican menace last week, sent a resolution to the Government demanding strict limitation of the number...
...York opened at Jamaica, L. I., onlookers, instead of sidling up to bookmakers in the crowd made their way openly in jostling hordes to a "betting shed" which had been empty since 1908. There, holding up their slates, stood the besieged "layers." Called back to the betting ring to settle disputes between layers and players was grizzled John G. Cavanagh who had the same job 27 years ago. A onetime program salesman at New York tracks, then a vendor of bookmakers' sheets, he organized the Metropolitan Turf Association (bookmakers union) before 1900. During the interim of oral betting...
Each layer last week had to employ a clerk to register bets, a cashier to pay winners, a runner to carry wagers from the clubhouse. To belong to the betting ring was expected to cost about $90 a day. Total bets on the opening day, in which the feature race was the Paumonok Handicap which Sgt. Byrne won at odds of 3-to-1, amounted to $500,000. Estimated revenue to the State at the end of the racing season in New York State...
...Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber's door was guarded by a paraffin screen from which the neutrons evicted protons. Having positive charges, the protons ripped through the chamber, freeing ions which...
...harsh powerful voices. Latest advices do not indicate whether or not she had found qualified applicants but when they finally do appear, the Stadium will be treated to a hog-calling contest. Led by Mr. Getchell, the trio will troup down to Soldiers Field and howl till the colonnades ring. The winner, who succeeds in rattling the seats in the press-box, gets...