Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building, when members of the three upper classes will have an opportunity to show their skill in six swimming events and in diving. "The winning class in this meet," A. W. Samborski '26, director of Intramural Athletics states, "will meet the champion Yale class team on Saturday afternoon, March 7, in the Harvard pool...
...floor of a Manhattan armory, 50 chessboards had been set up. Behind each board sat four men. In the middle of the square, alone against 200, stood a dapper, rather handsome man with keen eyes and a high forehead. He was the great Capa-Jose Raoul Capablanca-onetime chess champion of the world, newly returned to the U. S. after playing for two years abroad. He was competing with more players at once than any chess master had ever tried before;* it looked as if the job was too hard for him. Right at the start the team from...
...Collies. Champion Lucason of Ashtead o'Bellhaven beat his son Bellhaven Lucason for the blue. Both are owned by Mrs. Florence Ilch of Red Bank, N. J., one of the most energetic fanciers...
Quite as arresting as such phenomena is phenomenal Charles Fort, who puts such questions with an accusing grin at Science. He is a world's champion professional anti-scientist. For 23 years he has grubbed in museums and libraries for records of occurrences which scientists can explain (thinks Fort) only by ridiculous hypotheses or denial that the occurrences occurred...
Marion Hollins, onetime U. S. women's golf champion, went to Agua Caliente, Mexico, where the racehorse Nevada Queen had been attracting attention on the track, bought the horse from its breeder, Wild Horse Charlie Farrell...