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Word: championed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most ski addicts can trace their initial interest in the sport to the spellbinding ski jumps seen in the newsreels. But they soon learned that ski jumping could not be mastered in "ten easy lessons." Last week, when the national ski-jumping champion ships were held at St. Paul, only a few natives were good enough to enter the Class A competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ski Riders | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...other States, John Henry Lewis is considered light-heavyweight champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grippo's Grip | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...former Crimson hockey stars returned to plague the Varsity ice squad Saturday night at the Arena as the St. Nicks, champion New York Amateurs, outplayed the Hoddermen by a close 3 to 2 score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOPMEN AND HOCKEY TEAM FIGHT TWO LOSING BATTLES | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Radcliffe has given up bowling as an official sport this year but this unofficial foursome headed by Radcliffe's bowling champion, Miss Grace Bennett, are already set to play any representative quartet from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Bowlers Say They Have the Stuff to Down Any Harvard Pin Men---Miss Grace Bennett Bowls Mean 160 | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy Conn, 21 and still growing, has a powerful left hook, has defeated five one-time world's middleweight champions. Johnny Paychek, a Des Moines bellhop, is the hope of the Midwest. Onetime national Golden Gloves champion, sedate, violin-playing Johnny Paychek has won 16 fights (twelve by knockouts) since last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black-Jack Joe | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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