Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 100,000 farmers from Iowa, Illinois and Missouri had gathered at the Widow Agg's to witness a national plowing contest. While Bess Truman, who had come up from Independence, fixed a big red carnation in her husband's buttonhole and the farmers grinned appreciatively, Harry Truman arrayed himself on a platform on a little knoll. He was delighted with the speech which Clark Clifford had written for him. Figuratively he bared his fangs. As violently as he could, he mowed 'em down...
...last year's football records mean anything, the Columbia-Harvard football game should be the only soft spot on the Columbia schedule, a breather between Saturday's contest with Rutgers, which was a lot tougher for the Lions than the score of their 27 to 6 victory would suggest, and Yale, which whipped Columbia last fall...
Preview highlights of the customs which will be passed along to the new 'Cliffedwellers include word that Barnard Hall residents serenade President Jordan and Deans Kerby-Miller and Sherman with Christmas carols and walked off with last spring's song contest with the entry, "Wellesley Has A Muddy Lake...
Cabot is the newest and biggest dormitory; has the only elevator and the only fifth floor on the Quad and an annual jump-rope contest every spring. Whitman Hall has personalized wallpaper in the living room: dainty spiders and bugs are sketched in among the flowers...
...matter of record that, in the six games between Columbia has never beaten, tied or even scored on the Crimson. Unfortunately, the last contest in this series was played...