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Word: champion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the supervision of Norman Bonney, former Eastern Bridge champion, the third University duplicate bridge will be played in the Dunster House dining hall Monday and Tuesday evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bridge Tourney | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

...Chairman Jones listened in the House Press Gallery, he heard fellow Democrats on the floor denounce the RFC as a tool of the bankers, heard Republicans champion it as the salvation of the country. No G.O.Partisan forgot for a moment that it was President Herbert Hoover who had the RFC created in January 1932, and who, by proclamation, continued it for a second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Two-Year Sentence | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

Mann: Why be a piker? Let's ... see who's champion of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yale Swimmers | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...will meet Pete Olney in what promises to be one of the feature bouts. McCluskey lost only one decision last year, that to Phil Hines of Harvard, while Olney won his M.I.T. match by a knockout and lost a close decision at Virginia to McClung, the Southern Intercollegiate champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BOXERS MEET SPRINGFIELD TONIGHT | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

...pounds and stands 6 feet, 4 Inches tall. Smith has lost only two bouts in three years, one of them to Jeffers of Syracuse, winner of the National A. A. U. championship, and runner-up in the Olympic games, and the other to Leo of Virginia, Southern Conference champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BOXERS MEET SPRINGFIELD TONIGHT | 2/9/1935 | See Source »

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