Word: champion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion of rightful King Amanullah (now in exile at Rome) the Conqueror and Liberator found himself last week in a slight quandary. Ambition and perhaps destiny called him to the Throne. Duty bade him proclaim the restoration of King Amanullah. Came a great warrior shout of "Nadir is our King...
...restricted . . . tempered by charity to the delighted victim of your generosity." As he prepared to sail from Quebec, to reach London as near as possible to the opening date of Parliament (Oct. 29), the tall, tousle-haired Scot could look back on such a triumph as no avowed champion of Labor ever enjoyed in the Americas before. Toronto. Red Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself...
...finals of the fall tennis tournament in the class A singles were settled yesterday afternoon when Harris Coggeshall 1L. seeded number one, and fourteenth National ranking player, defeated R. S. Murphy '33, seeded number four and former National junior champion, in five sets...
...round title bout between Mickey Walker, world's middleweight champion, and Ace Hudkins of Nebraska, at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles...
...Class B tennis tournaments will be played on Divinity Courts, weather permitting. In the former group, Harris Coggeshall 1L, a graduate of Grinnell College in 1928, fourteenth National ranking player, and seeded number one, will meet R. A. Murphy '33, seeded number four, and a former National indoor junior champion...