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Word: two (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...two Milk Fund fighters are both foreigners. To become Champion, the winner would probably have to whip Sharkey, who "won" at Miami, and perhaps Dempsey, who has never formally "retired" since losing to Tunney. But one of these two foreigners is called Champion of Europe. And the other one looks and fights more like the Dempsey of old than any one since that Dempsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milk & Money | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...entrance into pugilism was casual. "One time," he says in recently but well learned English, "I was in Muhlheim. I walked into a gymnasium. There I saw two men boxing. I said, 'That seems like good fun. Let me try.' So they gave me some gloves and I boxed. I knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milk & Money | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Like many another boxer he plays much golf. He likes cinema and has spent much time studying movies of Jack Dempsey's fights. He wears a gold wristwatch with a black silk band. In his upper jaw he carries two large adjacent gold teeth. When he speaks he gesticulates gracefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Milk & Money | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Birmingham, England, Madge Gunner, governess, complained last week that her first fiancé, a Wartime officer, was killed by a rifle grenade; her second, an aviator, fell to death three days before the wedding; her third, an engineer, was struck by a crane and died; her fourth died two days before the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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