Word: winner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Nawn played the closest match for Harvard by forcing Frank Street, recent winner of the Young Men's Christian Association Tournament and sixth ranking player in the state, to the full five game match...
...Creek, Pa. In the All-America Conference, the Baltimore Colts had rights to him. In the National Football League, clubs drew lots a fortnight ago. Six men made wry faces, but Coach "Bo" McMillin of the Detroit Lions clutched his slip of paper as though it were a sweepstakes winner, let out a happy bellow: "Hart!" Leon could sit back and watch the bids come...
...spring term, the total points each dormitory has earned will be totaled to determine the Yard Intramural Athletic Champion. The top dormitory will receive a Yard version of the Straus Trophy, given annually to the winner of the House intramural contests. Hollis Tops Last Year...
...Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast...
...Winner Walt Linaweaver got away to a fast start and was never headed over the one-and-eight-tenth mile route that stretched completely around the inside of Soldiers Field and finished by circling the freshman track. In second position was Harvey Thayer of Winthrop and David Best of Dunster took third...