Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hottest team in the Ivy League meets the screwiest team in the Ivy League tonight, when the defending champion Dartmouth Indians, with a lean and hungry look, invade the Indoor Athletic Building for a contest with the unpredictable Crimson five at 8:30 o'clock. In a preliminary contest scheduled for 6:45 o'clock, the Junior Varsity takes on the Boston Boys Club...
Born. To Marva Trotter Barrow, 26; and Sergeant Joseph Louis Barrow, 28, World Heavyweight Champion: their first child, a daughter, 7 Ib. 5 oz.; in Chicago...
...mass of Frenchmen is concerned, the honeymoon is over in dealings with the Americans. Those who retain a lingering faith in America as a champion of the oppressed pray that the U.S. will retrieve the political situation 'before it is too late.' Distrust springs from the 'new collaboration' of French officials (lately pro-Vichy and pro-German) with American officers...
...champion of younger men in government work, Eden himself no longer looks like an undergraduate or a prodigy. The grey streaks in his hair, the lines in his face, his thick-lensed spectacles mark a new maturity. He almost regrets his natural capacity for looking immaculate. There are too many other things worrying him and Britain...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...