Word: champion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since 1924 that James Ramsay MacDonald, pacificist, socialist, internationalist, has represented the British Empire at a conference of the great powers. Particularly last week it was advisable for Mr. MacDonald to show himself the broad, humanitarian champion of peace that he has always been. The Latin powers were in a huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter...
...lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles...
...Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, last week, the Danish Grand Master gave neat proof of the efficacy of his method. In the International Grand Masters' Chess tournament, matching wits with all the great masters except two, World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine and onetime World's Champion Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch gained ten wins, ten draws, had only one loss. Earning 15 points he was proclaimed winner. In a dramatic two-week rally he had advanced from fifth place. Only on the next-to-last day of the four-week tournament did he achieve the lead...
Chess matches, unlike engagements of brawn, can be reproduced bodily. Experts, meditatively recapitulating the tournament games from published scores, opined that the one between Nimzowitsch and Dr. Milan Vidmar, Rector of the University of Ljubljana and eminent professor of electrodynamics, best illustrated the art and strategy of the new champion. In it there were no traps, no blunders, Nimzowitscii won by forceful, logical .?ggrec:'on. The play...
Close behind, averaging only .001 m. p. h. less, was brother George Wood in Miss America VII, last year's winning boat. Both other contestants were eliminated by engine trouble. In the second (and final) heat Champion Wood sent Miss America VIII roaring at the new record time of over 75 m. p. h., strengthened the tradition that he is unbeatable on water...