Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reading through your valuable news magazine, and through other American organs, I am not too amazed to find the current supposition that Americans have now become the world's champion philanthropists, and the only saviors of sorrowing mankind...
...long-distance runner in Canadian politics, William Lyon Mackenzie King had already broken all endurance records as Prime Minister of Canada. (Previous champion: Sir John A. Macdonald, 19 years.) Last week, he passed an Empire milestone. By completing 7,620 days (20 years, 10 months and 10 days) in office, Mackenzie King toppled the mark set by Robert Walpole for service as the King's First Minister...
...Russia's solemn Mikhail Botvinnik, 37, who trained for the big event by spending several weeks in a rest home, all but clinched the world's chess championship (not an Olympic sport) in Moscow's Hall of Columns. Sam Reshevsky, the U.S. champion, was running third in a field of five...
...greatest talkers in literature, half-English by choice, as Churchill is half-American by birth, colorful, eloquent, holding fast to his opinions in the face of staggering reverses, he was to novelists what Churchill was to Britons in World War II-their battered but undefeated champion. He was the great embodiment of the idea that fiction is an art, and that it is art that makes life, that gives it interest and meaning...
...never underrate opponents," the genial lightweight coach declares. Even though his varsity eight last year trimmed every other 150-pound boat in the world to rank as unofficial champion and match the Varsity heavies' title, Haines is making no predictions for the coming campaign. "We'll have some tough races this spring and how they'll come out nobody knows...