Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago he reached a high point of eloquence when, in one sentence, he declared: "The most unbelievable, the most astounding, the most cataclysmic occurrence of this period will have been the championship by both major parties of a policy of government [i.e. Repeal] the consequences of which are the deterioration, the degradation, the enslavement, yes, even the death of multitudes of American citizens...
...last week a Poland China sow named Royal Lady farrowed eleven shoats between noon and 2 p. m., entered the show ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...
...team coached by Duke's Wallace Wade has ever beaten a team coached by Tennessee's Bob Neyland at Knoxville. Undefeated Duke last week kept its hopes of a national championship intact until two minutes before the game ended. Then Tennessee Halfback Thomas ("Red") Harp's 70-yd. runback of a Duke punt wrecked them, saved the Tennessee jinx...
...year has grim associations. Last September, the flame from a locker-room hotwater boiler ignited gasoline spilled by players using it to loosen bandages, burned Purdue Footballers Carl Dahlbeck and Tom McGannon to death. In the Memorial Stadium at Minneapolis last week, the memorial planned by Purdue-a conference championship-was shattered by Minnesota...
Still headed for another Big Six championship, Nebraska's husky Cornhuskers' two touchdowns in the first half came too soon for Oklahoma's Sooners...