Word: underdogs
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...this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that the U.S. might one day become exasperated over the increasing number of incidents involving U.S. property and nationals...
...Days a Week. At 75, Conklin's eyes are pouched and weary behind their spectacles, his hands are brown and gnarled. But he still has the same temperament, as can be seen in his championing scientific underdog Robert Hooke. Moreover, his step is firm, his voice vigorous, and his tall figure is neither gaunt nor flabby. He retired from the Princeton faculty and became a professor emeritus six years ago, but that is a sort of pious hoax. He is as active as ever...
...Louis: a 2 min. and 20 sec. fight in defense of his title; knocking out grim, 36-year-old Jack Roper, a Hollywood electrician who was considered a boxing has-been ten years ago; before 25,000 fight fans; at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles. Challenger Roper, 12-to-1 underdog, admitting it was the first break he ever got, received 10% of the nearly $100,000 gate...
...sprint defeats in Big Three Competition in the 100, possibly in the 50, and in the 220. Perryman and Duncan of Yale, Van Oss of Princeton, Williams of Penn, Armstrong of Dartmouth, and Garrett of Army constitute formidable opposition for him in the 50, with Gar- rett the underdog favorite...
...worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years' incredible persecution for his faith. Escaping to Russia, he is arrested, exploited, tortured, framed, at last bitterly disillusioned. But before