Word: champion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team to defeat Dartmouth and hope to challenge Yale, it must be able to improve in places such as the breastroke, where last year, Stanley was Eastern champion and national runner-up in the 100-yard distance...
About 200 debaters from 68 colleges will compete Thursday through Saturday in the Sixth Annual Harvard Invitational Tournament on the Topic, "Resolved: That further development of nuclear weapons should be prohibited by international agreement." Teams include Northwestern, national champion, and Pennsylvania, tournament champion...
...face set in a ferocious scowl, their Mike was a throwback to Battle of Britain fighter pilots -a carefree daredevil with unruly flaxen hair and polka-dot bowtie. In eight lusty years, lead-footed Mike punished cars, survived six serious accidents -and last October became the first world champion in British racing history. Two months later moody Mike abruptly retired from racing, said: "I can't properly explain all the reasons, even to myself...
...swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...
Atkinson quickly learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy...