Word: weight
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Boxing properly done brings into play every muscle in the body. It develops speed with the arms and legs, teaches perfect balancing of the weight, sudden shifting of weight from one foot to the other and, above all, calls for alertness of the eye and mind second to no other sport. The eye becomes trained to notice an instant's opening in the other man's defense, the mind must instantly recognize the opportunity, direct the proper currents of muscular action to start the hands on their way to take advantage of that opening. There is eye, brain and muscle...
...there is a scarcity of weight-events and pole-vault candidates, the Track Management expects an increased attendance at this cage practice...
After Coach Anderson has had a chance to size up his material, both squads will be divided according to weight into the following classes: 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175 pounds and heavy-weight, four pounds overweight, however, will be allowed in each class...
Edward P. Eagan, who won the middleweight championship at the recent Olympic games, and who won the heavy-weight championship two years ago at the meet in Paris of the American Expeditionary Forces, is again captain...
...time, is that of radioactive lead. A large number of experiments of varying character have resulted in the showing that at least two kinds of lead exist: one, the ordinary metal used in our pipes and otherwise industrially throughout the world; another, a form of lead, with lower atomic weight but otherwise precisely similar, produced apparently by the decomposition of uranium. Radium has been found by others to be one of the intermediate products, and it has come to be generally acknowledged that helium (discovered by Sir William Ramsey 23 years ago) is one of the final decomposition products...