Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college students and graduates of classes from 1926 to 1930 are eligible to enter an essay contest, now being conducted by The New Republic. First prize consists of $100, second prize, $75. The winning essay will be printed in The New Republic...
...purpose of the contest is to find out the type of college students prefer to attend, and to encourage thinking and writing about standards of academic life. No essay should be more than 2000 words in length...
...four, lost three, and tied. In the scoring column Harvard has rung up a total of 37 points to its opponents 14. Of the games Harvard has lost, all three were decided by the margin of a single goal. The University Club six won in a 4 to 3 contest, Toronto downed the Crimson 3 to 2, and the Green sextet won out in Hanover by a 2 to 1 margin...
...special feature of the 40th show. One, worth $4,000, had died on reaching the show because his water and food had spilled en route from Cleveland. The canaries were judged mainly on their abilities to follow the tunes of a German water organ. Four shy canaries delayed the contest one day by refusing to whistle when they were expected...
...Virginia team of the 4-H Club won a judging contest. The 4-H Club ("head, heart, hands and health") is an organization of boys and girls fostered by the Department of Agriculture to encourage an interest in farm life. The judging contest is a contest in which the members of the 4-H Club handed their opinions of fowl to the real judges...