Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Max Baer knocked out ponderous Primo Camera and took the heavyweight championship (TIME, June 25, 1934), Jimmy Braddock managed to get back into his old profession. And by an equally unforeseen victory over Art Lasky, in whom the Garden management hoped to find a suitable match for Champion Baer. Jimmy Braddock himself was now about to have a crack at the heavyweight championship of the world. As he slipped the blue bathrobe from his pink back, he was the sentimental favorite of a Bowl crowd of 30,000, most of whom had bet their money 8-to-1 against...
...sympathy, no best wishes rose to greet brown, broad-shouldered Champion Max Baer as that prime poseur, playboy and punchinello of the U. S. prize ring parted the ropes. The customers could not help resenting the fact that Baer's night club escapades, his cinema career (The Prizefighter and the Lady), his reluctance to train properly, amounted to a refusal to take seriously the sport of fisticuffing and, by inference, its patrons. The fact that he had won his title in the same ring where he was now about to risk it. and where no championship had ever been...
When the referee warned Baer for hitting low, he made a ludicrous bow. When the champion noticed an acquaintance at the ringside, he waved a friendly greeting. When Braddock reached his face with stinging but unimportant jabs, Baer sounded a jolly ''Ho, ho!" But solemn, plodding Jimmy Braddock took the first three rounds...
...Moscow every potent Bolshevik from Joseph Stalin down feted Dr. Benes who is also a favorite of King George, often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...active members. Any teacher or researcher in an accredited institution may join. Founded in 1915 to "increase the usefulness and advance the standards and ideals of the profession," the Association has ever since been strenuously denying that it is a "professors' union," that its prime purpose is to champion victims of academic injustice. Its committees range from A to Z, busy themselves with such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions and Insurance," "University Ethics," "Depression and Recovery in Higher Education." But its Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee...