Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Hindus and Moslems were snarling at each other, Jawaharlal Nehru, ardent champion of Indian independence, summed up for them and for the world India's New Year's mood: "[We] will not willingly submit to any empire or any domination, and will revolt against it. It will be a continuing revolt of millions, with a passion behind it which even the atomic bomb will not suppress...
...sprained knee will keep once Indian Open Wrestling Champion Govind S. Karki '43 out of action for at least two weeks, but Coach Thomas hopes that Stephen B. Young, NROTC, will be able to grapple in the 136-pound class despite an ankle sprained in practice Wednesday...
With a National Open Wrestling Champion of India (155 pound class) in G. S. Karki '48 and an eastern high school champion (128 pound class) in Donald B. Ray '49, Coach Jay Thomas of the wrestling squad will be able to muster a good team for the coming mat campaign. Despite the great preponderance of Freshmen prospects are good for the first match of the season against Tufts Saturday afternoon on the gym floor of the Indoor Athletic Building...
Thomas, who was National Weight Lifting Champion in the 123 pound class in 1941, and who wrestled second to a four-year national champion on Oklahoma A. & M.'s famous squad, announced that competitions for the eight Varsity spots would be held this afternoon...
When asked how he came to be a weight lifting champion, Thomas said that he had been in a severe auto wreck his Freshman year in College, and had taken up weight lifting to build himself up from 90 pounds after a six-month stay in the hospital. He kept at the sport and this year plans to enter the national championships again...