Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of an expedition surveying the proposed route of the Nicaraguan Inter-Ocean Canal (see p. 18). Arriving in Managua, he took charge of the Marines' fire-fighting detachments. There was no water, no fire apparatus. Dynamite was his only weapon. Marine squads blew up a ring of houses round the blaze, fought the creeping flames with spadefuls of earth and adobe dust...
More extraordinary than either Weaver or Lombardi is Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, 20-year-old rookie pitcher on last year's champion St. Louis Cardinals. Like loud Art ("the Great") Shires, last year's Washington and Chicago freak, Pitcher Dean self-consciously copies the manners of Author Ring Lardner's fictional rookie baseballers, causing his luggage to be emblazoned by complimentary legends and boasting "there ain't no one can touch me when I bear down." Pitcher Dean stated he would win 20 games...
...Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Never a good boxer. Berlenbach was badly beaten by Jack Delaney five years ago (TIME, July 26. 1926). For his fight with Delaney, Berlenbach received $125,000. For knocking out dusky Six-Finger Eddie Clark last week, he got $40. Critics agreed, after watching his ring tactics (more awkward than ever) and his wild left hook (no longer dangerous), that he was unlikely to come far back. Still, they wrote about him. And he got a contract to fight again, this time...
Tennessee game wardens sent decoy letters to M. E. Bogle. They shadowed his bird-cage trucks, finally unearthed a huge quail ring whereby two men in two years had bought and distributed 80,000 quail illegally trapped by farmers in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama...
...Tampico, Mexico, Enrique Bosdet and Salvador Rodriguez patented a contraption to be fastened to coffins so as to ring a bell above ground at the slightest movement within the coffin. (Mexican law requires that a body be buried within 24 hours after death; embalming is rare; danger of burial alive in Mexico is great.) Cost of the gadget: ten pesos...