Word: champion
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Giant P. The Conservatives now dominating His Majesty's "National Government" have made splendid and honest use of their opportunity to take over as their specialty and to champion before the World the particular brand of pacifism with a giant P plus zealous support of the League of Nations (hitherto the forte of the British Labor Party) which recently proved their pulling power with British voters by winning 11,000,000 ballots in a nationwide straw vote (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week the Labor Party, in convention at Brighton, were so carried away by their loathing of Fascism...
Winthrop, potential champion and winner for the last three years, has the largest squad with over 22 men out. Coached by Robert S. Brookings '35, last year's stalwart on the Varsity, Winthrop is expected to nose out Kirkland, its nearest rival...
...last hole of the last match of the biennial Ryder Cup Tournament between U. S. and British golf professionals. Inches from the pin, sure of a four, lay the ball of British Open Champion Alfred Perry, one up after 35 holes of play. Thirty feet away, lying two, was the ball of U. S. Open Champion Sam Parks, noted when he won the championship last June for deliberateness approaching the fidgets. Deliberate now, while some 5,000 watchers held their breath, Sam Parks finally tapped his ball, rolled it squarely into the cup for a birdie three and a tied...
Spectators at Manhattan's annual Westminster Dog Show have agreed of late years that the big white & golden sable collie, Champion Lucason of Ashstead o'Bellhaven, is a magnificent sight. Imported from England and reared at the famed Bellhaven Kennels in Red Bank. N. J. by energetic Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, No. 1 U. S. collie breeder, he was judged best of breed at Westminster from 1930 to 1934. But many a layman, remembering the smart, friendly Scotch collies of his youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled...
...Englewood next day Lucason won a champion's blue, a hero's acclaim...