Word: won
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Church will win, it always wins in the long run," Tabasco's Diaz had said, when exiled to the U. S. in 1927. Now the Church had won, and Rome was putting her champion in command...
...That won. The judges included Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of New York, famed press-agents Ivy Ledbetter Lee, Edward L. Bernays, John Price Jones...
...London, Conn., on the yacht-crowded Thames, Harvard and Yale had their annual race for two. As it had seemed she would, Yale won. Rowing a slow 30 strokes per minute, crossing the finish line six lengths ahead of Harvard, the men with blue tips on their oars did not pause to shake hands and take the Harvard men's shirts away from them, as is the custom, but kept rowing right on upstream and across to their boathouse and training quarters at Gales Ferry. When the Harvard oarsmen finally crossed the line they collapsed freely...
...beaten Wisconsin, seemed a powerful heavy crew but Washington had been defeated on the Pacific coast by California. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which entered the regatta for the first time this year, Pennsylvania, coached by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, onetime (1923-27) coach of Washington, and Syracuse, which has not won a Poughkeepsie race since 1916, seemed sure to be the trailers...
...Milk Fund fighters are both foreigners. To become Champion, the winner would probably have to whip Sharkey, who "won" at Miami, and perhaps Dempsey, who has never formally "retired" since losing to Tunney. But one of these two foreigners is called Champion of Europe. And the other one looks and fights more like the Dempsey of old than any one since that Dempsey...