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Word: champs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beverly Hills, Alfred Letourner, onetime French cycling champ, got a $200 fine for taking a nick out of a lady friend's hip. He had not meant to cut the lady (he said). Upset because of her friendship with another, he had just taken a few distraught slashes at her bed, and she happened to be in it. Day after he was fined Letourner was arrested again, charged with creating a disturbance at Barney's Beanery, where his old friend worked. She had married the other fellow. That time, Letourner (said his lawyer) was just trying to patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 9, 1946 | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...reaches the wrestling room on Monday, Thomas will become Freshman coach. Boston's plans for handling the squad will run strictly along Varsity lines, however. A Crimson heavyweight Intercollegiate champion eight years ago, Chief will probably work mainly with the heavier man on the squad while Thomas, also a champ but in the 121-pound class, will handle the lighter Weights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Matmen Train, 40 Strong, In Daily Sessions | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

...Bill has been kind to Ulen, but even kinder to Dartmouth, who can almost certainly boast in Erstock an Ivy League breast stroke champ, and to Yale in supplying Edward Heuber, and Intercollegiate pace-setter, who in October stopped the watch at 51.7 seconds for the hundred freestyle...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/29/1946 | See Source »

Said white-haired ex-Champ Tommy Armour, who played against Hogan last week: "Like Joe Louis and Walter Hagen, he'll never quit till they carry him out. They may be able to beat this boy in the muscle, but not in the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Iceman Winneth | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...other out. The question of which was the nation's top team was not decided, only put off. It remained to be seen whether either team, having given its all, might now drop a game to a lesser opponent and thus give fans a chance to crown a champ by defaultl

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zero Hour | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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