Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bother to nominate a Man of the Year this December? Any man who can throw the whole world into a state of nervous tension, change the map of the European Continent, persecute thousands of people, and still come through without actual declared war. should win this coveted title without benefit of competition...
Then when James Boy, a seven-year-old, suddenly zoomed from last place to win by half a length, the two Washington women rushed hysterically to the cashier's window...
...than any of his fellow press lords-or such transatlantic contemporaries as William Randolph Hearst or Joseph Medill Patterson-Maxwell Aitken was never noted for his powers of debate in Commons. But he was an adroit political tactician. He won his peerage for ''merging" the Lloyd George "Win the War" Cabinet in 1917, was made Minister of Information (propaganda) a year later, and in 1922 shoved his friend Andrew Bonar Law into the Prime Ministry. This was a shortlived triumph with a painful ending. Bonar Law died of cancer of the throat a year later. His last words...
...Harvard men have been moderately successful this year, triumphing in four and dropping only two decisions. Last Friday the Debating Council men vanquished the University of Vermont, but Friday, November 18 saw Williams win...
...mackinawed men from the Hills of Hanover took it on the chin Saturday, 23-13, at the hands of the sunkist college of co-ed dreamdom. And it was no freak win. The weather was clear and the track fast. All-American Captain Bob MacLeod and his mates Bill Hutchinson and Colby Howe were due to romp. Stanford, however, held them to 77 yards by rushing and only seven of Hutch's 17 passes found receivers...