Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight so I had to wait until Jefferies took it away from him in order to get another shot at the Championship. I was ten years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years. It was a 25 round bout. Up to the twenty-third round I had the edge on him and it was in that round that he knocked me out. It was quite...
Soon Lieutenant Araki composed himself for a night's sleep. At dawn, as the bugle blew for hoisting the Japanese ensign, he arose, mounted the bridge, faced the sun, as it rose over Japan, and shot himself...
Died. Ornato Succu, 35, Sardinia's last brigand chief, killer of more than 60 men; by a shot from the Royal Italian Police, near Sassari, Sardinia...
...country grain dealer, came to London and opened a draper's shop while the U.S. Civil War raged. He put his trust in window displays, at a time when storekeepers had to decoy customers into their murky shops. Victorians were dazzled, and he became the "Universal Provider." When shot to death* in 1907, he had a business worth $4,500,000. This, since the War, has supported the model garden village of Burhill, near Walton on the Thames, where several hundred aged men and women workers, indigents, prolong a lean existence in 300 cottages...
...strain of the fast play began to show on the graduate team and the play centered around its own goal. R. F. Murphy '27 scored the third goal for the University stickmen and then C. P. McQuaid '23 running half the length of the field made a fast shot to the ropes which the goalguard was unable to intercept. The Alumni's single point came when William Babson '25, skirted the University's defense men unnoticed and, taking a long pass, evaded G. A. Weller '29, the University goal, to score. In the closing minutes of the game, Captain...