Word: contest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final home game before the Commencement fray with Yale, the Crimson nine will be out for revenge this afternoon when it faces Virginia in a return contest at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. On its spring trip through the South, Harvard dropped a close one to the Cavaliers...
...Dealism was no issue between Senator Robert Rice Reynolds and Representative Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. in their primary contest last week, tantamount to election, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in North Carolina. Personality and geography won by 92,000 for playful Senator Reynolds. As is customary, the State will again have one Senator from each end. Bailey from the East, Reynolds from the West...
...first time since competition was inaugurated in 1922, a British team defeated a U. S. team (7-10-4) in the Walker Cup golf matches, played at famed St. Andrews last week. In so doing, they dominated a contest which was notable from start to finish for its incorrigible screwiness...
...with a check from Queen Elisabeth for 50.000 Belgian francs ($1,695). Second prize: 25,000 francs, presented by the Belgian Minister of Education; ten smaller prizes ranging from 20,000 to 4,000 francs, presented by the Eugene Ysaÿe Fund. Judges of the contest, named by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Musical Foundation, included eight world-famous pianists...
Bias. When America, able Jesuit weekly, announced a contest to discover anti-Catholic bias in the U. S. press (TIME, March 7), the Christian Register (Unitarian) snapped: "The Roman Catholic Church represents the most powerful organization of bias anywhere to be found." Said Christian Century, liberal Protestant weekly, "There is something very dangerous about the doctrine that only the truth has a right to be heard." Said the Churchman (Episcopal): "A large section of the American press is having a bad case of jitters over the attitude of the Roman Church. ... It is a pitiful exhibition...