Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odds-makers is due, first to the Dartmouth win, second to an observation of comparative scores, and third to the greater personnel strength of Harvard. In addition, the Northeastern squad had a game against B.U. last night, and could conceivably be slowed down as a result of that contest...
When the Atlantic Monthly held its first prize novel contest 23 years ago, a flood of 1,150 manuscripts engulfed the editorial staff; extra readers were hired to weed out the hopeless entries. Into the rejects went a manuscript titled Jalna, written by a Canadian woman named Mazo de la Roche. Its handsome binding caught the eye of one of the Atlantic's regular editors. He picked the manuscript out of the discard, glanced at it and did not stop reading until he had finished it. Jalna won the contest's $10,000 first prize...
...player in a major sport gets his big H even if he sees only 5 seconds of action against Yale," as any member of the track, swimming, baseball, or crew organizations will gladly tell you. Even in basketball and hockey, only a comparatively few men see action unless the contest has turned into a rout. In swimming and track, you not only have to be practically on the first team just to compete against Yale, but you have to score points to earn your letter. The minor sports, then, are hardly the only victims of the present system, which...
Starting the contest at 7 p.m. Monday when the orgy began, Richard P. Miller '49 and Richard E. Harrington '47 bore up until just a half hour before the jazz gave way to Bach last night. At that time Miller, with a 37 and a half hour total, conceded to Harrington, who had a 44-hour, 20-minute record. The victor's prize will be all the hour he can drink at one sitting...
Tufts was still making a contest of it up until the midpoint of the third quarter but then the Crimson went on a scoring spree from which Tufts never recovered...