Word: won
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...Loud, persuasive Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, 43, first made a name as an Assistant State's prosecutor in Chicago. He has been on every G. O. P. ticket in Illinois since he convicted Gangster Leo Brothers of murdering Chicago Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle, thus won that potent paper's support. He has never won. Now he hopes to beat Democratic Lawyer James M. Slattery, 62, who has had many an appointive job, never before run for office...
Sophomore Bill Bird of the Blue won first place honors in covering the course in 27 minutes, 22 seconds, leading Harvard's Captain Lang Burwell by more than 100 yards. Mort Rehm was the first Princeton man as he took third place in 27:43, three seconds behind Burwell...
During Yost's 40 years at Ann Arbor, Michigan football teams have played 308 games, won 237, lost 54, tied 17. Yet Fielding Yost last week remembered not only the full name and graduation year of all his stars (37 of Michigan's 40 captains were at his farewell dinner), but also some definite play that immortalized each one. He even recalled the exact spot on which each play was started-and no one challenged his memory...
...Stockholm, Sweden, word was received from Oslo that Nazis, who once banned and damned the Nobel Peace Prize had, by invading Norway, probably won the Nobel foundation's funds...
...Millennium. To see it on the same bill with the news-reels and a raving, screaming, hair-tearing March of Time is quite refreshing. If the end of the world is imminent, if Willkie and Roosevelt aren't both elected, if England and Germany don't both win, it won't do anyone any barm to have a good laugh before Judgment...