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Word: competitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong teams as Syracuse, Princeton, Penn State and Cornell. The time for the race was 3 minutes 33 1-5 seconds. Contrary to previous plans, this same team will represent the University tomorrow in the 880-yard relay race, each man running 220 yards. Marshall, the only other Crimson competitor in today's events placed fourth in the hammer throw with the distance of 137 feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON WINS FOURTH PLACE IN PENN RELAYS | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole system. These visits took place before the war, in days when an optimistic census had declared that there were only some 8% of illiterates in the whole vast area. English commissions were satisfied that this country had a very dangerous competitor in scholarship, in science, in general liberal education across the Atlantic." Then came the draft report that 25% of the drafted men were illiterate. And the British breathed more freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Some Defects | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

...reintroduction of a sculling competition as part of the Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, increases the importance of rowing as an intercollegiate activity. It will be the first time since the latter '70s that there has been an intercollegiate sculling race with Harvard as a competitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLEASURE-ROWING" | 4/6/1923 | See Source »

...decided at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the class to award the highest competitor in each department with a sub-chairmanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FRESHMAN RED BOOK COMPETITIONS UNDER WAY | 3/27/1923 | See Source »

...regulations for the competition specify that the essays should be typewritten and signed with a fictitious name, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the competitor or competitors, and sent to Albert S. Bard, 25 Broad Street, New York City, so as to reach him on or before June 1, 1923. Two or more competitors may collaborate, the prize to be divided among them in the event of their success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OFFER PRIZE FOR ESSAY ON PLOTTING OF LAND | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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