Word: contest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which many classes of floats contend for prizes for the best floral decoration. High schools and colleges, hotels, cities and towns, all have their floats. This year the scope of the tournament has been extended, and cities from all parts of the West are entering floats in the contest...
...interest your class to know that the quality of the plays submitted far exceeded even my sanguine hopes. The value of the plays in this contest may best be tested by the fact that as a rule. I produce one play-in each thousand submitted for my consideration. That I shall in all probability produce at least four of the forty-two submitted is a criterion at least, of my own opinion of the plays...
...contest for a prize of $500 was open to any student, past or present of English 47 or 47a at Harvard or Radcliffe, and was won by Miss Rachel Barton Butler, a member of Professor Baker's course from 1915 to 1917. Her play was a comedy entitled, "Mamma's Affair...
Some of the difficulties in the way of developing the machine may be imagined by the conditions of the contest, which require that the airplane shall take the air vertically, have a range of speed up to 134 miles an hour, and land vertically within a radius of five metres...
...submitted in typewritten form on or before October 1, 1920, to the secretary of the American Economic Association. No definite length is prescribed for the essays, but it is expected that each will constitute a small monograph of from 7,500 to 25,000 words. All inquiries regarding the contest should be addressed to the secretary of the American Economic Association, Goldwin Smith Hall, Ithaca...