Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Overland, Dodge, Essex, Oldsmobile, Hupmobile just as its older brother had competed with the Buick, Jordan, Reo, Studebaker, Rickenbacker, Hudson, Nash, Willys-Knight. But in this it would be aided, not only by its Maxwell legacy, but by the older brother's reputation. The promises had a similar ring "83% more power than official rating," "better lubrication with no more oil," "a strong frame that cannot weave," "no vibration...
...long after her appearance in Spain, she had, perforce, to sit in the royal box in the great bullfighting arena at Madrid. Pale and sick at heart, she watched the bull charge into the ring, watched the matadors and the toreadors approach. That much the Spanish people could force her to do, but they could not make her keep her eyes open; and throughout the whole nauseating, raucous performance, her eyes avoided the cruel slaughter...
...with the fast Army riders, who won a 19-0 victory over Virginia Military Institute last Saturday, and who had been picked as Yale's probable opponent in the finals, before the tournament began, in spite of the fact that Harvard defeated them in the West Point riding ring last winter...
...mouth, puffed face, smashed nose, blotchy body, put a question to him. In 30 seconds more, the bell would start the twelfth round of Gibbons' battle against Eugene Tunney, a handsome fellow with a pompadour, a mild face, who sat facing him from the opposite corner of the ring. Tiered in darkness, 40,000 watchers perspired freely. They saw the solicitous referee bend above Gibbons. They saw Gibbons shake his head. The bell rang. Gibbons stood up. He took a step, smacked his smirking opponent (a one-time Marine) on the right temple. The other, angered, beat a furious...
...chief claim to fame is the fact that he lasted 15 dubiously honest rounds with Dempsey at Shelby (TIME, July 16, 1923). He has knocked out a great company of inferior fighters, his most glorious victories having been over William Miske, Kid Norfolk, Georges Carpentier. Now 36, his ring career is doubtless done...