Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Bradway further endeared herself to sporting Wildwoodmen at a wrestling match in the Municipal Auditorium. The audience became displeased with Wrestler Joe Savoldi for the tactics he was using to subdue his opponent, one Stanley Sokolis, and heartily approved when Mayor Bradway grabbed a plank, climbed into the ring and brought it down on Wrestler Savoldi's skull...
...defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered Mount Solluve which commands the entrance to Bilbao harbor. Planes, dropping the same incendiary bombs that destroyed Guernica (TIME, May 10), set fire to the forests, and a series of bloody bayonet charges cleared...
...fight was two rounds old, it became obvious that this time Ambers' knowledge of how to catch Canzoneri's jabs on his elbows, duck his hard rights, was worth more than Canzoneri's ever-fresh certainty that Ambers did not really belong in the same ring with him. When, after 15 rounds, Canzoneri's self-assurance was the only thing he had left, three judges unanimously gave Ambers the decision. Equally unanimous, experts decided that the string of Ambers v. Canzoneri fights had ended...
...John S. Paraskevopoulos, in charge of the Bloemfontein station, cabled the University Observatory that when Mercury was seen silhouetted against the sun there were no signs of any luminous ring around the body. His observations were made with an eight inch visual telescope...
...streamlined City of San Francisco has phones used by porters for service only. Last week Southern Pacific revealed that a new City of San Francisco now abuilding will have telephones in every compartment and in dining and observation cars so that passengers can not only call for service but ring up each other free of charge...