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Word: scrappers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all but a handful of league hockey players, 35-year-old Eddie Shore is a Canadian and a scrapper. In his time he has overdone the latter, as a result has none of his own teeth left. His nose has been broken ten times. In one fracas with the Maroons six years ago he got his nose, jaw and four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mightiest Bruin | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...termed the best boxer of the evening by Coach Henry Lamar, Ditrinco, winning the 135 pound title, was uncanny in his accuracy, and was also the fastest and most agile man in the ring as he defeated David R. Simboli '40 in the finals. Simboli, a peppy, speedy scrapper, could not cope with Ditrinco's lightening-like smashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKILL AND GRIT MARK MITT-PUSHERS' MIXUPS | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...tangled affairs of Harley Clarke's Pusco [Public Utilities Securities Corp.), brought a receivership suit against the company, tried to keep RFC from voting Pusco stock which it had acquired as collateral for an unpaid loan. Says this 40-year-old bachelor: "I'm just a natural scrapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Natural Scrapper | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...when he was arrested and ordered court-martialed for retailing an anecdote in which Mussolini figured as a hit-and-run driver. The affair passed off with a reprimand, but in October 1931, having been passed over for Commandant of the Marine Corps although he was the ranking officer, Scrapper Butler finally left the Marines. But he concludes with hoarse defiance: "There's plenty of fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoarse Marine | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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