Word: championed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important person in Argentina this week is Esther, grand champion of champions in Argentina's annual beauty show. . . . Even President Irigoyen is momentarily overlooked except for the day he presided over the ceremonies at which Esther was declared champion, and even then the president of the Republic played second fiddle to Esther. With insuperable eyes, perfect body and delicate lines, Esther has been admired this week by a great array of high government officials, diplomats and society matrons...
Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
Pierre Etchebaster, kinetic Basque, world's champion court tennis racqueteer, arrived in Manhattan from France to be an instructor at the Racquet and Tennis Club, to play exhibition matches, defend his title if an adequate opponent be found...
...favored to win both the 500 and the century. Local swimming officials have watched him at work in the Y.M.C.A. tank and have spoken favorably of him. In the 100-yard race he will be matched against Gordon Conolly, senior diving and junior indoor 220-yard free-style champion. George Shinney of the Boy's Club of Boston, indoor senior 220-yard free-style champion and record-holder, John Sheesher of the Central Y.M.C.A. of Springfield, and Martin Ford of the Brookline Swimming Club...
...learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear...