Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the hills of Hanover ring with hosannahs, Coach Osborne Cowles takes his record smashing, probation riddled, championship basketball team to Cambridge today, facing the last contest of the most successful season in Dartmouth basketball history...
...hotel to a bar, to a brush-headed young man named Guenther Gustave Rumrich. Mr. Rumrich-born in Chicago to Austrian parents 27 years ago and a deserter from the U. S. Army-was reported to have wanted the passport blanks for the use of an international "spy ring." By week's end the agents arrested two of Mr. Rumrich's alleged confederates, Erich Glaser, a 28-year-old German-born private in the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron stationed at Mitchel Field, New York City's air defense centre, and Johanna Hofmann, a 26-year-old German hairdresser...
...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...
Continuing his discussion of some aspects of American naval policy, Baxter warned that "they can't get us by land, but they can get us by air." Against this danger he advocated a ring of defense extending from the Aleutian Islands, through the Sandwich Islands and Samoa to the Panama Canal Zone...
...quit the professional ring to come to Harvard as coach, a chance he welcomed. "It was a wonderful break for me to work with Dick Harlow," he says enthusiastically. The one lesson he's learned from the prize-ring he is quite sincere about, for he declares that, ". . . . professional boxing is not a game I'd recommend for any boy, no matter who he is!" Politics and avaricious managers corrupt boxing, he says, and in spite of all beliefs to the contrary, it is rare that a fight is actually "fixed...