Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Khan gave his usual trophy for international Army jumping. For years the only time that the strains of "God Save the King" have impinged in public on Free State air has been at the opening of the Dublin Horse Show when the British Army team rides into the ring. Not to abrade further the nerves already rubbed raw by President de Valera's squabble over the land annuities (see col. 2), the British Army team withdrew last week before the show opened. There were other anthem troubles. Official anthem of the Irish Free State is a ballad entitled...
...China Forum, radical weekly, made a survey, announced that Chinese Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze. They have eight major armies totalling 151,000 well-drilled men, of whom over half are equipped with rifles. Week by week the Communists creep in a constricting ring closer & closer to the former "Chicago of China," stagnating Hankow. Last week they were reported only 17 miles away...
...Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting...
...Liberty, some of the 2,400,000 readers -perhaps one-third of them-turned to page 23 for the weekly list of Twenty Questions. The publishers know, but will not tell, exactly how many readers turned because they paid Dr. George Gallup, famed advertising researcher, to have his canvassers ring 1,000 doorbells every week and ask what features Liberty readers enjoy most. "Twenty Questions," a short version of the old "Ask Me Another" fad, won high rating...
...Eduardo Miura, whose ganadería is near Seville. Miura bulls kill many horses.* Few matadors like to fight Miuras; some will not. Many breeders have bred smaller bulls at the behest of cautious matadors, but if a bull is too small he is whistled out of the ring. For those who wish to judge bulls before they reach the ring two occasions are important: the feria (fair) at Seville in the spring and the July encierros at Pamplona...