Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International, the official sources (where the dictionaries differed, either spelling would do). Professor Harold F. Harding, the veteran "official pronouncer," threw a fast one at Mary: flaccid. Mary muffed the catch, spelled it phlaxid. John got it right, spelled the next word, too, semaphore, to cinch the national spelling championship...
...gain the championship the Deacons took the hardball and crew titles and tied for first in tennis with Winthrop. Dunster garnered the basketball, swimming, and softball titles while Leverett won the squash and volley ball...
...swamp people had picked a favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five...
Wisconsin's fresh water sailors from the deep west scored the rowing upset of the season as they chalked up a remarkable time of 9:12 4-5 to capture the sprint championship of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges Saturday over a 1 3/4 mile course on the Severn...
Eight sweating Varsity oarsmen filed into Coach Tom Bolles' office in Newell Boat House yesterday, following their last time trial in home waters before they leave for the Eastern Association Championship Regatta on the Severn River at Annapolis Saturday. A minute later seven came out surrounding the eighth, Bim Chanler, each one extending their hand to him as their newly elected captain...