Word: championed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prettily tailored ballplayers of Kirkland, last year's champion club, battled their way out of the League cellar yesterday by edging Dunster, 3 to 2, leaving the Funsters alone in last place. Another event in the bottom division of the House League was Dudley's 15 to 2 victory ever Leverett...
Mounders, pounders, or the stoppers of grounders? What are champion House baseball teams made...
Kirkland, last year's champion, has fallen. Not only have the Deacons lost two out of two, they have failed to enlist any more than two of last year's squad to help them out. Star outfielder Freg Wagon, for example, has strayed out of activity. This is ironic indeed in an organization which worships that rather vague deity, House Spirit...
...Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner story; with some of the fastest boxing scenes ever screened (TIME, April...
...began as a reporter on the Boston Post in 1909. Much of / Wanted is a plodding recital of his rise from $18 to $45 a week (in six years) as a newsman, followed by success as a roving reporter for the Satevepost (1919-1937). In 1928, another champion of doggedness got him started writing novels. Advised his Maine friend & neighbor, Booth Tarkington: "Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going. Put down Arundel, page 1, Chapter 1,' on the first page, and keep right on working until you fall asleep...