Word: champion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Frank Morgan (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Champion of the double Scotch & entendre, he replaces Jack Benny & company for the summer...
...National Champion McKinney, chewing gum confidently after it was over, spilled the secret of his success: "I read a lot. What, for instance? Oh, lots of things. But I'll tell you something I like. It's the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...London, bull-shouldered Freddie Mills, late of the R.A.F., went down six times before the punishing fists of U.S. light-heavyweight champion Gus Lesnevich. Six times Mills got up and almost beat Lesnevich's face out of shape. In the tenth, Freddie forgot to duck again; he got up at the count of nine, a helpless target. The referee stopped the fight...
...long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...
Their fantastic energy is what makes them interesting. Even twenty billion volts is not the best they can do, and this is 200 times the energy of the champion electrons from General Electric's giant betatron. Cosmic rays can burrow hundreds of feet into the ground or penetrate 75 ft. of lead. Some, less energetic, are thought to be secondary particles scattered in showers when a primary particle hits an atom in the atmosphere...