Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-finals and finals of the University boxing tournament at 8 o'clock tonight in the Hemenway gymnasium ring 21 competitors will have an opportunity to show their skill in the manly art. A crowd of 800 or 900 is expected to see the contests, which will be staged in the 125, 135, 145, 160, 175-pound and heavyweight classes...
...With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
Crane operators of both types man-oeuvered their hooks with equal calm and skill, feeling that as long as they were working for different concerns on different jobs they could restrain any evil feelings that might otherwise have arisen. The break came when some of Zimble's non-union men did a job for Shaughnessy. At once there was friction in the air. Labor unions representing all the workers employed at the plant investigated the state of affairs, and incidentally ordered a strike. For the past week no work has gone on in consequence, and with the continuance...
With the heavyweight classes furnishing most of the thrills a crowd of about 300 people witnessed the first 13 bouts of the University boxing championships which began last night in Hemenway Gymnasium. Displaying an inborn skill at the manly art D. D. Carrick 24, Canadian American Champion scored a knockout victory over A. D. Robertson '33 in the 160-pound class, laying the Freshman low in the second round...
...opponent E. F. Hutchins '30 in the 175-pound class to win by a decision. Torres also won in the 160-pound class, scoring a win over James Brennan by a technical knockout. In both these bouts Torres displayed his endurance and ability to take punishment and so his skill at beating off the blows rained around him opponents...