Word: championing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house. Harvard had finished the most calamitous season on record (one victory, eight defeats), and the Boston press was having a field day. Wrote Bill Cunningham in the Herald: ". . . Harvard still thinks of herself as a national power when, as a matter of fact, she's only the champion of Middlesex County, and that only ... because she didn't meet Arlington High School...
Pacing the varsity team were Bob Berke, who won the 220-yard free style event; Joe Fox, this year's captain and winner of the 50-yard free style; Gordon Weir, diving champion; John Steinhart, winner of the 100-yard back stroke; and Dick Wheeler, 100-yard breast stroke winner...
...pound contests. Smith's opponent at 145 will have a decisive height advantage and is heavy through the shoulders, but he comes up against a man who knows a great deal about wrestling. If Carter can stay with John Hansen, another New England freshman champion, the 136-pound fight should be an interesting...
...broken foot will keep Sam Felton, Business School athlete and national AAU indoor champion, out of Saturday's invitation 35-pound weight throw at Briggs Cage...
Decline ... But by 1900, the party was forced to choices. "Would it champion the cause of small business or would it go where the power and money were, with Big Business?" The party chose Big Business. When sharp division arose between employer and employee, says Webb, the party chose the employer...