Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reformed loafer named Liu confessed that he had once been the district's champion erh-lü-tze. His wife & children left him for shame. Then reform seized him. Now he had ample livestock, 21 acres under cultivation. His family was home again. His village had elected him the local "hero of labor." Overwhelmed, the 63 erh-lü-tze hit the sawdust trail...
...Craig Wood, U.S. Open champion for the duration, who smoked his usual 20 to 25 cigarets per 18 holes and was an early casualty...
Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Carnera has been reported wounded in action. He has been reported shot for treason by the Fascists. But last week the former world's heavyweight champion was reported gloriously alive, the victim of the most ignominious defeat in his ponderous career...
...last week the royal grapevine was abuzz with a dramatic whisper. Royalty had a new champion-the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Washington came a report that Moscow had sounded out London on the subject of restoring Rumania's ex-King Carol to his throne. The Russians believed that Carol, now in Mexico with his mistress, Magda Lupescu, might be just the man to establish a Rumanian government "very friendly" to Moscow...
Moving from board to board in a simultaneous chess exhibition Friday evening in the Lowell House dining room, Mrs. Gisela K. Grosser, Radcliffe '27, United States woman chess champion, won 23 out of 25 games from the best players the Harvard Chess Club could offer...