Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...
...should keep up with their studies and avoid cramming before a test. In this case things just don't work out that way; even a simple review for Generals will require far more than one day. And with the present set-up a lot of seniors are going to ring in the early hours of New Year's morning with nothing more than a book...
Boxing at Harvard, it must be remembered, is an intramural sport. It had Varsity status until 1933, Lamar said, at which time "we ran out of opponents." Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, M.I.T., and other large schools discontinued ring-wars and the College followed suit...
...Most of the fellows think they're going to box right away," Lamar laughed. On the contrary, beginners are drilled in the rudiments for well over a month before they square off. Advanced students, however, work on the bags and in the ring, wearing protective headgear. And everybody gets calisthenics...
...Remember," he declared, "you're absolutely on your own. It makes you think and act for yourself." Others view boxing as a challenge, realizing they're somewhat timid and forcing themselves to overcome the timidity by climbing in the ring...