Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief threat to amateur tennis is a man of jovial mien. Plump Bill O'Brien was born 39 years ago in Manhattan. He took up professional baseball, became an accountant, was rejected by the Army because of poor eyesight, squeaked through a second examination to become the champion machine-gun marksman of the Tenth Division. After the War he studied osteopathy, trained Harry Greb, the French Davis Cup team, Suzanne Lenglen, Red Grange, Richards, Hunter, Tilden...
Under this new system, the winner of the Class A competition will be the Intercollegiate Singles Champion in his weapon and the team with the best record in all of the three classes will be the Intercollegiate Team Champion...
...more or less obscure sport. But this year there is the promising news that there is a bumper crop of good material and an unusually large supply of candidates. The redoubtable Rene will have a more serious job than usual, but Harvard has almost always come through with a champion in some event and this year should be no exception. BY TIME...
...cronies. A mediocre pilot, he rarely flies his own planes but does most of his business traveling by regular airlines. His days off he spends yachting. His six-meter boat Gallant represented the U. S. in the last Olympics, and his schooner Endymion has been Pacific Coast champion for the past four years...
...measures to root out the plague. From the University for one year he suspended five student leaders. Four were members of student council: John Burnside, president; Sidney Zsagri, forensic chairman; Thomas Lambert, men's board chairman; Mendel Lieberman, scholarship chairman. Fifth was Celeste Strack, Phi Beta Kappa and champion debater. The four councilmen, charged the Provost had been "using their offices to destroy the University by handing it over to an organized group of Communists...