Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Startled at the presence of an Austrian Chancellor in Fascist Italy, the Chicago Tribune ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") headlined in the argot of gangland: ITALY GRABS UP AUSTRIA AS ALLY IN BALKAN RING...
...Wilbur to the Kettleman Hills operators: "A billion dollars in resources will be wasted unless we can work out a method of orderly development of this great field. As minority landholders we want to see an agreement that will stop sinking of wells that call for offset drillings, with ring after ring of offsets. We want to participate in a voluntary plan by which all holders of proven land can benefit. We want to avoid 'drowning' the gasoline market with the flood of Kettleman Oil." He proposed four remedies : i ) Pooling all profits from the field according...
...Madison Square Garden, full to the rafters, Primo Camera, Italian monster (6 ft. 6 in.), strode toward the ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times...
JUNE MOON-Ring W. Lardner had a hand in this...
...curious was a Wyandotte hermaphrodite whose only noise was a low food call. There were Toulouse geese; a white leghorn rooster worth $5,000 (owner's valuation); an Australorp hen that laid 346 eggs last year; a flock of Japanese Silkies with down instead of feathers; a snouted, ring-eyed Buff-Laced Polish rooster, crested like an Indian chief in a medicine show...