Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only...
...other was rambunctious Harold Stassen, the only avowed Republican candidate in the ring. In a radio speech before Manhattan's National Republican Club he said: "A high tariff policy no longer suits America. . . . We believe in the increased flow of goods and materials and services and travel around the globe.... The alternative is either to go forward now with the reciprocal trade agreements, or to slide backward in economic isolation...
Freshman coach Ed Flanagan will take 30 track and field men to Exeter tomorrow afternoon for a 3 o'clock dual meet which will ring down the curtain on the Yardling indoor track season. In their most recent competition, the Freshmen were defeated by Andover...
...where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going...
...Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25, 1931), formed to combat the impression that all famous men earned their first dollars selling newspapers. He earned his at organ-pumping, and so did such distinguished members (Chet collected about 4,000 at $5 a "diploma") as Ring Lardner, Julius Rosenwald and Jimmy Walker...