Word: slugfest
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Dunster's quintet handed the Bunnies their first drubbing of the day by pulling a close slugfest out of the fire in the last few minutes to win 34 to 30. The rough contest submerged Leverett one more rung to fifth place on the inter-House basketball ladder...
John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics here and former member of the W.L.B., described three possible answers to the problem: first, that the conflict can only be resolved at the expense of the public interest; second, that there can be no settlement, only a slugfest; and third, that the conflict can be resolved only if strong and stifling legislation is passed...
...evidence against the Demon Rum. Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to combat bootlegging in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), he got 4,400 convictions, lost five deputies, shot. On a teetotaling world tour in 1919, he cheerfully lost an eye but won admirers in a free-for-all slugfest with unregenerate London tipplers. Quiescent since 1929, Crusader Johnson once confessed: "The more I talked, the wetter the country got, so I decided I'd better...
...games that have been played so far, Company A defeated Company B in a game last Wednesday in an 18 to 10 slugfest. Company C also possesses an emblemished record, having crushed Adams House, the only other civilian contingent in the competition, by a count of 17 to 2, last Friday...
Meanwhile, for the next two years, Detroit would have a mayor who had been generally friendly to labor and who, in the first election slugfest of his career, had doubtless learned much about his own shortcomings...