Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, greater than average emphasis on the Yale contest will not be completely abandoned. Henceforth, Yale games will be counted in most sports as equal to participation in two games, and in others as twice the number of minutes or innings played...
With money for sound equipment, Ivy threatens to hit the industry with highly professional talkies. Still in the midst of a script writing contest, Charles A. Yoder '49, president of the group, admits that the topic is not yet definite. "But," he asserts, "We've get a lot on the fire...
...Monday, the team journeys to Providence for a non-league encounter with Brown. Harvard's final game until after exams. The Crimson beat Brown, 8 to 3, in a league contest earlier in the year. Since then, the Bruins have beaten Columbia, Navy, and Princeton, and lost to Penn, Cornell, and Yale. They have proved more effective on their own Aldrich Field than on the road. Barry Turner will pitch for the visitors...
After the first few days of defeat, the Voice and BBC rallied. They called up reinforcements (more transmitters) and settled down to a long, subtle contest. Soviet jamming proved that Voice programs were being heard by the Russian people and were feared by the Kremlin. Now all the Voice's Russian-language programs carry a punch line: "Obviously somebody considers it dangerous to permit the Soviet people to listen to truthful information from a free radio...
Lowell rapped out 16 hits to Branford's eight in the ten-inning contest, but committed eight errors. John Goldsmith led the unsuccessful Bellboy batting splurge, hitting five...