Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh of fifteen matches played, Glidden, American intercollegiate finalist, defeated H. Lancaster, of Montreal, 16-17, 15-12, 15-9, 15-3, while in the twelfth engagement, Sargent, intercollegiate champion, defeated H. Martin, of Hamilton, Ontarie...
...your own inimitable way of li satirical "newswriting," are horrified by execution of your own class-brothers-the Wh Guardists-rats that got what they deserve, justice, proletarian justice. Of course, couldn't be expected to understand; your begeois ''culture" makes you a champion of " democracy" with its courts, "free," "open" ; jury trials with its McXamaras, Mooneys, Sac and Vanzettis and its Scottsboros (chosen "bitrarily") in comparison to its Insulls. T is your justice...
...Allemarsch of Sylvania, Sask., said he had made a fortune during the dry season by buying dried wells and cutting them into post holes, which sold like hot cakes. Pastures were so dry about Chippewa Falls, Wis., Guy R. Jewett said, that cows gave powdered milk. From Denver, 1933 Champion Philip McCary complained of the badge: "It isn't gold; it's brass. It isn't a diamond it's a hunk of glass...
Four summers ago Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian and champion hog-caller of Pine Bluff, Ark. chanted that remedy for rural Depression up & down the land. Last week at Prattsville (pop.: 114) he summoned a meeting of farmers and their wives to announce a far-flung scheme for bringing electricity into 15,000 isolated Arkansas farm homes. He proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said...
...best boxing of the evening came in the 135-pound bout, where Henry Sherlock repeatedly forced Lucien, amateur champion of Trinidad, to the ropes, but weakened to lose out on points...