Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally, if Britain were to lose the war, it is likely that India would become the field of competition among other exploiting powers, possibly Germany and Japan, with Soviet Russia assuming the role of champion of the Indian masses...
...Hershey, Pa. three weeks ago, U. S. Open Golf Champion Byron Nelson shot a 287 in the Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze-even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize...
...obscure Detroit factory hand. He could read slowly, write a little, say "Yas'm." Last week 25-year-old Joe Louis, now able to write a check for $1,000,000, returned to Detroit to show his fellow townsmen how his education had progressed since he became heavyweight champion of the world...
...seat. They saw what they expected to see. Fleet-footed Pastor-whose only claim to the challenger's role was the fact that he once lasted ten rounds against Louis-did the turkey trot, Lindy hop, chassé and Suzi-Q to keep out of the champion's waltzing range. Fleet-fisted Louis toppled the challenger every time he caught up: four times in the first round, once in the second and finally in the eleventh flush on the chin for a fare-thee-well...
...ANGELES--John Bromwich, the ambidextrous Australian tennis star, jolted Bobby Riggs, Chicago, National Champion, from the Pacific Southwest tennis tournament today in a hard-fought 6-4, 6-4, 0-6, 6-3 match...