Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first essential of boxing that prospective members of Harvard's first organized boxing team should master in the opinion of Jack Sharkey, American heavyweight champion, who was recently interviewed at his home in the exclusive residential section of Chestnut Hill. Sharkey declared that a good left hand was the most valuable asset in boxing and when skillfully used paved the way for all other blows...
...viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...
...precedence." With new Habsburg economy, they fared frugally on fish, meat, fruit, coffee. Next day aristocrats returned to the castle where they found Otto standing by his mother. He was dressed in a cutaway coat, wore white kid gloves this time. One by one they kissed his right hand, swore fealty to the new Head of the House of Habsburg. In the castle chapel Monsignor Seydel, former court chaplain in Vienna, pro nounced a benediction, sang a Te Deum...
...from Fargo, N. Dak. It was a set-up for McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased McLarnin round the ring, landed accurate, hard left hooks, floored him twice in the fourth round, bashed his vainglorious, boyish face into a bloody muddle. McLarnin, half conscious, streaked with...
...educational renaissance is at hand in the East, no man should feel more intimately connected herewith than Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist. To help Harvard and his own Yale escape the contemporary trend towards standardized mass education, he has given them more than $20,000,000 to divide their undergraduate colleges into compact, wieldy "houses." Last week it was announced that the Harkness "house plan" would also be made available to one of the biggest U. S. preparatory schools. Mr. Harkness gave $7,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy...