Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kramer, after getting used to the way "that ball bounces funny on the boards," breezed through his first three matches so easily that his hair (a crew cut partly grown out) stayed plastered down. In the semifinals, he met 34-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr., onetime Wimbledon champion who now (with pro star Don Budge) runs a fashionable Manhattan laundry. Time & again Wood showed that he could still hit a perfect overhead while leaping backwards, still nick the sidelines with smoking passing shots. Wood's laundry customers, out in strength, applauded wildly...
...Catholie nucleus of his strength. The cold welcome they received on arrival in Boston from the Emerald Isle has knit them into a tight political and sociological unit. Reformers are dismayed to find that this mass of voters feels its security rises and falls with the fortunes of its champion...
...Sigerist was brought to the U.S. and a Johns Hopkins professorship in 1931 by the late grand old man of medicine, William Henry Welch, first dean of Johns Hopkins' Medical School. To most U.S. physicians, Sigerist is best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings - both medical and non-medical - and written...
...Ickes and their Ranting about . . . 'MILITARY FASCISM.' . . ." It snickered over a typo in "our youngish but esteemed Contemporary, the New York Times." It needled The Lone Ranger for brazenly stating from coast to coast "that nowhere in the pages of History can you find a greater champion of justice...
...Nine championship race. At week's end three teams-Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana-were only a few points apart in the standing. Wisconsin was told to play out the rest of the unfinished game with Purdue. A win for Wisconsin would make it the undisputed champion...