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Those who hooted had seen this Irishman, Mike McTigue, light-heavyweight champion of the world, retreat all evening before Paul ("Punch 'em") Berlenbach of Astoria, L. I., who followed him with the angry obstinacy of an animal whose insignificant brain was fogged by the fumes of his very adequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Berlenbach vs. McTigue | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

But the blessing of El Nino proved overabundant. With their arid lands made a paradise, the natives found themselves economically impoverished. Along the Dry Coast, roofs, never made rainproof, fell in; houses, made of mud, sank to the ground in soggy heaps. Water-filled boats sank. As the waters rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: El Nino | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

A towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kaplan | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Little was said when Miss Browne qualified for her first national golf championship with a 96 (rather high) over the Rhode Island Country Club links at Providence, R. I. Eyebrows went up when she eliminated Louise Fordyce, Ohio State champion, in the second round. Eyebrows went higher, exclamations were heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Apostate | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

Bread−soggy, tasteless on the screen. (P. 16.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 28, 1924 | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

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