Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion who weighed 50 Ib. more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell with awesome health when he clambered into his corner of the ring at the Madison Square Garden bowl in Long Island City. When the bell rang for the first round, he lumbered earnestly out of his corner and pushed his left fist inquisitively into Baer's grinning face...
Carnera came out for the eleventh round still groggy and dazed. His huge sad face was covered with blood. He lurched on a twisted ankle. When he reached the centre of the ring, Baer smashed him in the face. A cowardly fighter would have dropped to the floor and stayed there. A wise one would have rested until the referee counted nine. Camera heaved himself up at the count of two, floundered toward his opponent like an enormous hurt animal. This time Baer hit him three hard cracks before he went sprawling again. The courage which made Carnera...
...chairman of the U. S. Tariff Commission. The conferees plumped for amendments which the real U. S. Senate adopted one week later. The scheme works. Princeton has lately begun to lead the nation in graduates accepted for the U. S. Foreign Service. The State Department's old "Harvard ring" is giving way to a "Princeton ring." Ambassador to Italy Breckinridge Long (1904) and Minister to the Baltic States John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1902) head a list of some 55 Princeton consuls and vice consuls. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania (1900), Governor John Gilbert Winant of New Hampshire...
...word "snobbery" has an unpleasant ring, and when it is pronounced, hearers want to sneak off and ask themselves if they are guilty. The two score years have passed since '97 was warned to guard a binding force. Those years have seen that and other forces of cohesion broken and the disintegration of Yale classes into small, more or less snobbish groups has resulted. The change has not been entirely within Yale, although the enormous increase in size and the more recent splitting up into colleges have furthered the disintegrating tendency...
...Hamden, Conn., circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...