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Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week tryouts began on a student-written play. There is no football team at Science (too expensive), but last year the school won the city tennis championship, in 1956 won the city mile relay and handball titles. Another sporting championship it picked off last year: the Interscholastic Mathematics Contest title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Training for Brains | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...slashes fat pitches to right field. And there the Coliseum outfield seems to stretch away forever like a vast green cow pasture. In his frustration, Duke undertook to prove to Infielder Don Zimmer that at least he could heave a ball out of the park. In a pregame contest, he threw a ball up to the 76th row of the 79-row stands before something snapped in his elbow. The team doctor prescribed rest and heat; Manager Walter Alston angrily ordered another kind of medicine. Every game Duke missed because of his horseplay, said Alston, would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boon for Batters | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...they do. Uh...do you boys have any sort of--singing contest like this...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Social Schism: Brown Spring Weekend | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

...varsity lightweight contest at Dartmouth tomorrow the Crimson probably will experience little trouble. The race will be rowed downstream on the swift Connecticut so that the time for the mile and five-sixteenths Henley course is about five minutes rather than the seven it takes on the Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Heavyweights Will Travel To Princeton for Compton Regatta | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

With only three losses this season, all of them by one point, the Crimson will be ready to prove that it should have a spotless record. If yesterday's match with previously unbeaten Brown is any indication of varsity strength, the Princeton contest will be very close...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Varsity Netmen To Play Tigers Here Tomorrow | 5/2/1958 | See Source »

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