Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time the 5,145 prizes were awarded last week, G.M. felt that it had got its money's worth. The contest had proved a smart publicity stunt. It had also given G.M. a closer appreciation than ever before of two basic emotions of good factory workers: a strong pride in their work, a deep love of precision machines. By giving those feelings a stronger, more individualistic outlet, G.M. felt, it could take some of the curse of monotony out of mass production...
...Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...
...Year's Eve the Crimson will battle Iowa at Iowa City. Fortunately the Hawkeyes have lost such stars at Dick Ives, who once scored 43 points in a single contest, and the brothers Wilkinson, Herb and Clayton, both of whom were selected on all-Big Nine teams...
Tomorrow's Boston Garden debut against Boston College will be the climax of days of intense practice for the freshman quintet and may easily be it's toughest contest of the season...
This will be the Varsity's only meet until the new year. The next Crimson contest is against Army at West Point on January...