Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard F. Root '51 won $25 for his detective ability in the Herald Traveller comic strip contest which has just ended, it was announced last night in the Boston paper...
John H. Sutter '51 and Robert W. Kratz '50, members of the Debate Council, took first and second respectively in an extemporaneous speaking contest held yesterday at the Emerson School of Speech and Drama in Boston. The contestants drew topics an hour before they were required to give their speeches, nine minutes in length...
...weak in the dash and hurdle events. The most consistent winner of all the Crimson runners, is flect sprinter Dick Weiskopf. A second in the 220 in the opening meet of the season is all that mars his record of firsts in the 100 and 220 in every contest this spring. Charlie Durakis has never taken lower than a second in either the high or the low hurdles...
...remedy, according to Niebuhr: let mankind return to the Christian concept that history is a drama "of God's contest with all men, who are all inclined to defy God because they all tend to make their own life into the center of history's meaning...
None of the nine matches were runaways for the Red and Gray, except for the unusually slippery Exeter courts, the freshmen might easily have made the contest closer...