Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other winners last week: CJ Sandy Saddler, 22, a willowy, broomstick-legged Negro, ended Willie Pep's six-year reign as featherweight boxing champion. Saddler, more of a puncher than a boxer, began by bloodying Pep's nose, put him on the floor twice before knocking him out in the fourth round at Madison Square Garden...
...REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA (437 pp.) -Hector Bolitho -Macmillan...
Midnight firecrackers have been echoing around the Houses ever since the football season began, but Yard police, alerted by complaints from House masters, are still baffled at the minor reign of terror...
Dolph Samborski named the coaches yesterday for House football squads, and Eliot already has stolen a march on its intramural rivals. Charley Mains, last year's masterful pilot who turned out an undefeated squad, will be back to continue his reign as the outstanding exponent of the "T" formation attack in the House league...
...nothing happened, angry Alimonti sat down at his rough desk. In fine handwriting for which, too, he curses his mother, he wrote a letter to the highest authority, the republic's then President Enrico de Nicola: "Now that we have a republic and that the people reign . . .", and he explained Arsoli's case: "Please see that something is done for this starving population." Punctilious, prompt and useless was De Nicola's reply. It ran: "Your request has been passed on to competent Roman municipal authorities." That was the end of that...