Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years ago an extremely successful tournament was held, but the heads of intramural sports feel that the present project will be even more enthusiastically received. In 1936, when 150 men signed up, Winthrop captured first honors and lost to Yale's champion sextet by the score...
...hundred years ago last Monday John Knowles Paine, the founder of the University's Music Department, was born. To celebrate the anniversary of the man who, for forty-three years, was the embodiment and able champion of the College's musical tradition, Widener Library now has an eight-case display in its main hall. Appropriately chosen and arranged with taste, the exhibition contains holograph manuscripts, portraits, books, and original texts, many of which have been lent to the Library by Professor Paine's colleagues and friends. Of special note is a large, colorful portrait of Professor Paine by Caroline...
Lesser men of the year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...Clearly, if the Business & Advisory council. . . should now formulate proposals and if Harry Hopkins concurs in them, the business group will find a better and more vigorous champion at the White House than they have ever had. Unhappily one of the complaints about Secretary Roper's regime was that he did not have the confidence of the left wing in the New Deal and hence was not as powerful in Administration policy as he should have been or as Mr. Hopkins would...
Among the horse-and-dog lovers of Fayette County, Build flourished. For his heroic statue of Guy Axworthy, famed trotting stallion, he was reported to have received $15,000. He made a bust of a dead superintendent of schools, of the founder of the Lexington Leader, statues of several champion great Danes, of a trotting mare and sulky. Then he disappeared...