Word: championship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring intramural program draws to an end, Company D appears to have clinched the Navy league softball championship. With a record of six wins and no losses, it is far ahead of its nearest competitions, Company A and the NROTC, each with two wins and one loss, and Company C, with three wins and two defeats...
Company H has won two while losing three, and Company I has one victory and four defeats. Company B, with five defeats and no wins, brings up the bottom of the list. A playoff game for the College softball championship will be held between Company D and Dunster House, the civilian champs, some time next week...
...date and the slap in the face I got instead of the kiss I attempted, the El going down, streets being widened to let the sun in, new tenements replacing the old slums, the crowd applauding the time I came through with the hit that won us the Borough championship-the memories, which, if people like me do not fight, our children will never have...
Dunster House virtually clinched the civilian intramural softball championship last Tuesday when it defeated Adams in a wild and wooly fray by a score of 20 to 2. This was the Funsters' second victory against Adams, as against one defeat by the Gold Coasters, and, since Lowell House has not showed up for any of its scheduled games yet, Dunster may now be considered to have added the softball championship to its basketball laurels...
...Alexander Fleming was born (1881) in Darvel, in Ayrshire, the son of a farmer. He went to St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, largely because it won the Rugger cup and had had a championship swimming team the year before. (Dr. Fleming still loves to swim. His other hobby is rifle shooting.) When he graduated in 1908, he took honors in physiology, pharmacology, medicine, pathology, forensic medicine and hygiene, received the University Gold Medal...