Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a frantic closing sprint brought the title to the Mastodons, who had to buy back the lead from Adams and fight off a last quarter mile challenge from Winthrop. The Puritans, undefeated up to the finals yesterday, were the only combination to have beaten Eliot previously.
Eliot's 33-beat stroke provided a comfortable margin until the Adams challenge, at which point Scholle responded with a rapid rise to 37 and his crew finished strong at 38. A seaut seven feet separated the bow of the winner from the last place beat.
Why had Crum & Barnes thrown over secure careers to gamble on making a newspaper out of PM? Said Joe Barnes: "A challenge I couldn't resist." Said Bart Crum: "America has been running the wrong way since the fall of Germany. There's been a decline of faith...
In the field of comedy, however, the Trib players allow themselves to romp with such abandon that the script becomes a contender for the laughter of the audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral...
One day last week in Manhattan, Pierre stepped briskly into Park Avenue's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club. Though he is the world's champ, he is also the club's court tennis pro, which puts him in the class of hired help. (Court tennis is a game...