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Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham will continue his annual war on scalpers in the traditional contest by stationing three agents from the Cambridge police force strategically around Harvard Square. These three men, Lieutenants Breen, Robbins, and Murphy, are the same officers who cracked the Coop robbery...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: 135 Police Braced for Eli Invaders, Scalpers, Mobs | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

Odds on the freshman game run considerably higher than those for the varsity contest, as Poley Guyda's class of 1952 soccer team faces the MIT freshmen this afternoon at MIT. Traditionally the freshman Engineers have been an uncoordinated outfit and, by their past record, this year seems to be no exception. The Crimson has lost but once this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Booters Face Engineers | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day ... When [Harry Truman] damned the 80th Congress and the Taft-Hartley law, nobody seemed really to care or to listen" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Study of a Failure | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...freshman team had little more trouble with the Brown freshmen Saturday than the varsity had with its opponents. After a relatively slow start, the Yardlings roused their passing game and blasted to a 5 to 1 victory at the Business School Field shortly after the cessation of the varsity contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Booters Stop Brown | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...students hope to hold their contest sometime during the Yale weekend, when Mr. Hickman will be in Cambridge with his football team. At the moment they are searching for a local eatery which will provide a free training table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Out to Out-Eat Hickman . . . | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

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