Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world's heavyweight boxing champion; of cancer of the liver; at Bayside. L. I. A clever disdainful boxer, he knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds in New Orleans, after politely contradicting, in a Chicago saloon, Sullivan's famed boast: "I can lick any son of a in the world." After losing the title to Bob Fitzsimmons, trying unsuccessfully to win it back in two fights against his onetime sparring partner, Jim Jeffries, he earned a living by acting (Gentleman Jack, After Dark: or Neither Maid, Wife...
...March 11, as previously announced by D. M. Sullivan '33, president of the Council, a debate will be held in Cambridge with New York University. Harvard will support the negative of the resolution: "That, in the interests of American prosperity, the United States should cancel the War Debts." There will be no decision...
...clock tonight, the Harvard Freshman debating team will meet Exeter. The subject of the debate is: "Resolved: That only students of superior ability be admitted to the Liberal Arts Colleges." The members of the Harvard team, which will take the affirmative, are: Lewis Perry, Jr. '36, A. G. Sullivan '36, and as alternate, F. E. Sweetser...
...March Atlantic Monthly commences inauspiciously with a plaintive and unintentionally amusing article by Wilson Follett, entitled "The Forgotten Man to His President." This unfortunate beginning, however, is rectified by the featured article, "The Revolution in science," by J. w. N. Sullivan. This critical exposition of the scientific philosophies of Eddington, Jeans, and Millikan, succeeds in avoiding most of the errors of modern popularizers of science. Not sufficiently accurate, perhaps, to conform to the standards of Professor Whitehead, it is clearly written and stimulates the reader's thought; it is an excellent introduction to the rather febrile speculations which have grown...
...Detroit last week, Beekman Pool of New York retained the title he won from his brother J. Lawrence Pool a year ago by beating Neil Sullivan of Philadelphia in the final of the men's National Squash Racquets Championship...