Word: winner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first peak was fairly reached: triumph seemed assured in the first process: from that time on the way would be easier. However, he was not to go further, his life was demanded as the ultimate payment for his services to industry and his country. But he died a winner in the game of life. In his brief 24 years he had gone where very few are destined to go in their whole life; along unexplored paths where he could satisfy his desire for truly constructive work...
Yale has admitted the illegality of her victory in the 440-yard swimming relay for the national intercollegiate championship, held last April under the auspices of the Chicago Athletic Association. Northwestern University, which finished in second place, will be declared the winner, and the medals, held until now by the Yale men, will be surrendered to the members of the Northwestern team...
...Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Indian poet, musician, educator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913, will speak at Tremont Temple, Boston, tonight. The subject of his lecture will be "The Cult of Nationalism." Tagore has been acclaimed by many as the greatest living poet. His writings reflect the romantic spirit of the East, and most of his poems are written to a weird moaning Rengali music, which he himself composes. He has translated many of his own works, among them his short stories in the writing of which many critics claint his greatest genius lies. Tickets ranging...
...addition to Overton and Wenz for first place, Brown of Williams, winner of the New England Intercollegiates, Thompson of Dartmouth, Preti of Maine, who ran second last year, and Captain Shotwell are all good runners...
Yale will be represented among the leaders by Levine, Walters and Captain Overton, winner of the cross-country intercollegiates a year ago. Yale has a well balanced team that was just defeated by the University 26 to 29. The fact that they will know the course better today will give them a distinct advantage...