Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winner was spare and scholarly John Cornelius Stennis, 46, a circuit judge. In him, Mississippians hoped they had a man who would return to the hard-working senatorial traditions of Pat Harrison and John Sharp Williams. John Stennis, born on a farm in Kemper County, had made a bright record for himself at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College and at the University of Virginia law school. He had made an equally bright record as legislator, district attorney and judge. He has never had a civil decision reversed...
...blooms had withered on their stalks, and the local bookmakers waited grimly to pay out their cash. But the fixers never collected. As Macclesfield's flowers went to the post, Champion Jackson, still in good form, entered six substitute plants in the show and romped home an easy winner with two silver cups and 20 prizes...
...Bejarano, an illiterate mestizo, servant girl in Caracas, had never seen as much as 100 bolivars ($30) at one time. Now she has 209,503 bolivars (more than $62,000), plans to buy three houses, bring her six illegitimate children from the country to the city. Jilma is a winner of the five-and-six, Caracas' long-shot version of the U.S. daily double...
They will surely make fine alumni, but the mass centering around the hard core of the gentleman's C are not in line with Gummere's other category of "the promising potential winner of scholarships . . . , an editor or Council official." Not that they should be in line--the complexity only makes the job of learning that much harder...
...Winner of the ninth annual five-mile championship was Army with 59 points. Penn with 70 finished second. Other scores were Columbia, 87; Yale, 104; Dartmouth, 125; Princeton, 148; Navy, 161; Harvard, 162; and Cornell...