Word: champion
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...have won many national titles, but they could never draw the crowds of the Harvard-Yale game. Similarly, the more popular teams, in sports like football and basketball, are too often compared with their nationally recognized peers at powerhouse universities to really earn our respect. Last year, the Ivy champion women's basketball team was both popular and successful. But it was not until they scored a historic upset against top-ranked Stanford on national TV that they received the credit they deserved...
Sophomore Dora Gyorffy, who is one of thefavorites to be the NCAA high jump champion,successfully jumped 1.90 meters, just onecentimeter short of her career--and schoolrecord--best...
...20th century than Sam Walton. A scrappy, sharp-eyed bantam rooster of a boy, Walton grew up in the Depression dust bowl of Oklahoma and Missouri, where he showed early signs of powerful ambition: Eagle Scout at an improbably young age and quarterback of the Missouri state-champion high school football team. He earned money to help his struggling family by throwing newspapers and selling milk from the cow. After graduating from the University of Missouri, he served in the Army during World War II. Then, like millions of others, he returned home in 1945 to earn a living...
...came the new owners: Jessie Waldron Barron, a prim Boston boardinghouse keeper; and her insatiable journalist husband, who persuaded her to put up the $2,500 down payment. Clarence Walker Barron, 5 ft. 5 in. and 300 lbs. in his prime, was a high-living, big-investing champion of unrestrained capitalism who improved the Journal's standards while ordering up stories promoting companies whose shares he owned...
National Martial Arts champion Rebecca A. Rakow '01 described her vision of gender equality to about 20 people gathered for a speech at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel last night...