Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding match was at first singles, between Junta and Yale's sophomore ace, Don Dell. Almost completely recovered from his injury, Junta started out the contest by literally blowing Dell off the court in the first...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808 will next year hold a composition contest for undergraduates. The competition, to be held for the first time, will be judged by professors of Music...
Fortnight ago the contest went into a finale that surprised even Burden. At a minute past midnight of Sunday, May u, the value of the prize was to plunge to a piddling $1,000. Suddenly the clues grew tantalizingly specific, zeroed in on a fast-developing Denver suburb in Jefferson County. A weekend mob of some 25,000 people converged on the area, besieged it round the clock. The treasure hunters climbed trees, trampled new lawns, rummaged through garbage cans, shined flashlights into bedrooms, invaded homes to use toilets, even scaled a householder's roof to case his chimney...
...depth of three inches. Hurrying to claim his $1,000, he arrived at the station in the midst of a swarm of lawsuits from angry property owners. Apparently well content with this harvest of ill will, Don Burden moved ahead with his next gimmick: a "Lucky Phone Number" contest with genuine Shetland ponies as prizes. Crowed Burden: "I'm going to rock this market like it's never been rocked before...
...contest turned into a rout after a goal by Lamont and two by Pyle had made the score 14 to 9 at 8:37 of the period. Allen shook loose for three of the last four Eli goals, the final one off Chris Stone, who replaced MacKinnon when he was slashed on the ankle...