Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale has played, seems to indicate a certain amount of strength, but the 13 to 0 game which Yale won from the American College of Osteopathy last Saturday proved no real test, for he and his substitute, Brokaw, were called upon to stop only seven shots during the entire contest. There is little doubt as to the individual ability of the Yale sextet, but it is impossible to tell from their record so far this year whether they can outwit the Crimson defence, which has been especially drilled to stop the Blue combination...
...proved a tougher contest than Barbara Ann anticipated. A sharp, high wind off the Vltava River (the Moldau) troubled all contestants in the precise school figure events. And a 53° temperature the day before had thawed the ice in the open-air stadium and left it bumpy and irregular, making it hard for the judges to check the tracings of the figures. Barbara Ann finished her school figures out in front-but two of the seven judges had not picked her for first place. Two days later, in the free skating, Barbara Ann easily distanced the competition, boosted...
...tightest contest of the evening was between Crimson Captain Chuck Hoelzer and Milt Brier of the visitors in the 200 breaststroke, as the two battled it out all the way to the last ten yards before Brier crept ahead to win by two strokes...
...Drohan, ace diver, should have little trouble capturing tonight's contest, as his opponents finished behind Tech with a pitifully low score. Another Crimson swimmer almost sure to win is Ted Morris, whose mastery of the quarter-mile event has been unchallenged this season...
Striking Likeness. In Nice, France, Henriette Kennis entered a beauty contest stark naked, got off with a suspended fine when her attorney persuasively defined her in court as "a work...