Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Besides being a swimming coach of considerable fame, he has also won distinction as a boxer. In the 145-pound amateur national championship, Sutherland was runner-up for the title, and later annexed the New England Amateur Championship...
...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...
...that the United States had concluded a treaty with Japan on the subject of China will be welcomed by all as tending to remove the distrust and lack of confidence between the two nations. The policy of the Open Door, inaugurated by Secretary Hay at the time of the Boxer Rebellion has now been brought to a successful conclusion, for Japan has at last declared that she will in no way impair the sovereignty of China, nor limit the right of free and open trade on the part of all nations. In return for this, the United States agrees...
...have started the regular signal work course and in addition are drilling regularly. Captain Russell, who has general charge of the new corps, apparently the only one yet organized in the country, has had 31 months of actual fighting, having seen service both at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion and in the Philippines, being therefore especially fitted for the work of organizing a signal reserve corps in New England. Over 400 men have enlisted so far, all of whom had practical experience, with the exception of the college men entered in the corps...
...Another consideration is probably the hope that she may be relieved of her present obligation to pay Germany's share of the Boxer indemnity of 1900. The German part of the fine imposed on China was very heavy. The Boxer indemnity will not be completely paid off until 1940 and probably the Chinese government hopes to obtain a reduction from all the Entente Allies, and perhaps especially to get the German quota reduced...