Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped that TIME, the champion of journalistic accuracy, will correct its failure to mention the name of the winner in the coming Louisiana campaign for governor...
Only two minutes had gone by in the first round. There was a sharp exchange of blows, and Joe Louis, the world champion, fell backwards and landed on the seat of his purple pants. The crowd caught its breath, and then yelled. At the count of two, Big Joe got up again. But the 18,194 cash customers in Madison Square Garden had seen a rare sight-Joe Louis floored in the first round...
...first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs and battered face, shuffled over to Walcott and said apologetically: "I'm sorry...
...Champion Visitor. The new president had a majestic mien, a Wall Street manner and a Midas touch, which eventually brought to Columbia $120,161,727. He was a new kind of college president, of a type now familiar: an administrator, a speech maker, a fund raiser, and not too much of a scholar...
...also a man of great ambitions, not all of them realized. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees" (he was kudosed by 15 countries, 38 universities). On his first trip to Europe, at 22, Butler was armed with letters to Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. That was only the beginning. "It has been my happy fortune," he wrote later, "to meet, to talk with and often to know in warm friendship almost every man of light and learning during the past half century...