Word: contest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation ago is all but forgotten. The sharp exchanges between the bowlered ranks of C.P. Snow, the novelist who gave contemporary fiction the beautiful technocrat, and the disciples of Literary Critic F.R. Leavis now seem like an intellectual border dispute. In retrospect it was not much of a contest. The powers of technology and social engineering either bypassed or rolled over their academic challengers. Today many defenders of the humanities even drop terms like the uncertainty principle and entropy as loose literary metaphors...
...most points by one player in an NHL game is ten--six goals and four assists by Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler against the Bruins in February, 1976. Name the four players who are tied for second with eight points in one contest, and their teams...
Terry Bradshaw, who was named the game's most valuable player, dominated the exciting, but mistake-filled contest, passing for four touchdowns and 313 yards in the offensive orgy witnessed by nearly 80,000 at the Orange Bowl in Miami and a national television audience estimated at 125 million...
Captain Jenny Stone continued to devastate all comers. Stone has yet to lose a game this year, and Saturday was no exception as she trounced Williams' Pam Hansen 15-9, 15-7, 15-4 in the fourth-ranked contest...
...Williams contest, the Crimson again started slowly, falling behind 28-23 at the half. So freshman center Karen Smith, who was recently called up from the junior varsity, took charge under the boards, and let Carle go to work from the outside...