Word: warm-up
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Next day, the real fighting began. A rambunctious Congressman from Brooklyn, name of Donald O'Toole, who had watched tire fight by television, cried "Swindle." Critics blamed Billy Conn for not putting up a good fight, and asked why he had been allowed in the ring without a warm-up fight...
...answer was that Conn might have looked pretty good in a warm-up against the current crop of second-raters, and still flopped as badly when he got the main chance. He seemed to be suffering from an occupational disease that has afflicted many of Joe Louis' opponents-being scared to death...
...Crimson ballplayers will have a warm-up for the Yale game when they tangle with B. U. at Riverside on June 22. The team will have some practice sessions prior to that date which will stress fielding...
After the last warm-up, yesterday, the proposed opening lineup looked similar to the one used in the trial matches. John H. Knowles, NROTC, acting captain of the team until the formal election which will be held after the game, is slated as goalie...
...wartime no-strike pledge, was squirming no longer. Last week the biggest wave of strikes since peace began swamped and shut down many a reconverting plant. The effect was far greater than might have been expected from the comparatively small number. Reason: much of U.S. industry was in the warm-up stage, when the jobs of many often depend...