Word: roadwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, there was always a chance that a miracle might happen, and what a laugh it would be if a barkeep who trained on hops and did his roadwork in a Chevrolet were to win the world's heavyweight championship! So, one moonlit night last week, largely out of sardonic curiosity, 35,000 fight fans turned up in New York City's Yankee Stadium. No miracle happened. But ringsiders had to admit that no one since Max Schmeling in 1936 had got into a ring with Joe Louis with less fear...
With the exception of ponderous William Howard Taft, who covered 114,000 miles during his four years in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt has probably done more roadwork than any President in U. S. history. Up to last week, the Roosevelt mileage at home and abroad since 1933, totaled roughly 104,000. Last week appeared the likelihood of a trip that would considerably increase his mileage. Washington rumor for the past month has murmured that the President planned a cross country jaunt to Seattle, ostensibly to visit his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Last...
...session as the team drills for this meet gives the outsider a feeling of amazement as he watches the intensive boxing between the members of the team, the serious way they approach the meet that above all else they want to win. Practice bouts of up to three rounds, roadwork of one to two miles once, sometimes twice a day, shadow boxing, socking away at the heavy or light bags, or rope work all take their place in the drive to beat Virginia...
...three important Eastern tournaments in a row, made herself the heroine of the U. S. Wightman Cup team by her victory over England's formidable "Kay" Stammers, received No. 2 ranking for the year without playing in the National Championships. Her training methods: rope skipping, calisthenics, roadwork like a prizefighter. Her reasons for turning professional: ". . . You have to polish trophies but not dollars, and I hate to shine silverware. . . . I'm looking for ward most to visiting New Orleans. . . . It's a rare privilege for a girl to play . . . across the net from Tilden. . . ." While professional tennists...
Last week, 13 months before he was to defend his Presidential title against an as yet unnamed Republican challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt jogged out of Washington for a 3,000-mile stretch of political roadwork. The odds, while narrowing, still favored him. But just as all champions must go barnstorming to keep their names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale...