Word: champion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faced Ray Gene Cinnamon, 19, a shy boy with a big grin, from Garber, Okla., was named 1947 Star Farmer of America (prize: $1,000). Ray Gene has been showing prize-winning livestock at the Royal show for the past seven years. In 1944 his entry took the grand champion steer award, which, together with two other prize-winning animals, netted him more than $9,000. That year Ray Gene had to call in an accountant to help on his income...
Sailboats from 12 colleges will scud across the waters of the Charles River Basin this afternoon and tomorrow as New England undergraduate sailors hold their annual autumn regatta for the Schell Trophy. The winner will be in effect the fall intercollegiate sailing champion...
Twice each week during the fall, enthusiastic but undertrained House football teams clash in a series of games characterized by violence rather than any strict observance of gridiron etiquette. The games to decide an intramural champion are marred by a barrage of un-called penalties and totally unnecessary injuries. Ostensibly conducted under full collegiate rules, House football betrays a sandlot amateurism that threatens to execute players instead of plays...
Sport 26. Famed not only as a band leader, but as the defending champion in speedboat races this summer...
...quite-censorable leers and laughs. Miss Goddard, stripped down within an inch of the Johnston Office, is tethered for torture by the Indians and writhes exquisitely. She also takes the bath which has for many years been virtually a DeMille signature. It cannot compare with Claudette Colbert's champion dip, as Poppaea (The Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what pressagents described as $10,000 worth of grade A asses' milk; but in its crude frontier way (a cramped wooden tub) the Goddard bath is effective...