Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crenelated, neo-Gothic heart of the University of Chicago is one "Doc" Bratfish. Few Chicago men-students in the last 25 years have not had a shave & haircut from him. He it is who each year examines upper lips and fires a gun to start the seniors' mustache-growing contest, rewarding the most luxuriant growth with a shaving mug, the most girlish down with hair restorer...
...there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept. 30) -a bid of one club to oblige Partner to declare strength or weakness-has been losing caste. Replacing it has emerged a new convention, a "forcing" system in which the initial bidder, wanting stronger...
...Harvard Yale football game is neither the oldest football rivalry in the country nor is the gridiron the most ancient meeting place of the two famous rivals. The contest has come however, to have an almost legendary distinction which probably harks back to the days when it represented something very like the championship of the United States. Whatever the explanation, there is still no doubt that it is impossible for men of either institution to imagine anything quite like this game...
...Time Out introduces his all-Stadium team for the current season. The choices include Yale on the basis of that team's play in the Yale-Dartmouth contest; otherwise Florida players are the only ones whose work in the Stadium has not actually been seen...
...Yale Football picture for six weeks after the game in the event of the non-return of the old fence. Without some sort of support it would certainly be at least six weeks before the team could stand up for a picture after the results of this afternoon's contest...