Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest you to know that I won second place in the New York Times Current Events Contest here at the Academy relying almost exclusively on TIME for facts...
...other was a stocky Jew of 30-Charles A. Levine-an industrialist of Brooklyn. He began his business career by selling second-hand automobiles. He made several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine...
...Yale crew was not paced when it rowed the course, and the time reeled off by Leader's charges, 20.52, two seconds slower than Harvard's time, shows that the New Haven oarsmen are formidable. The exhibition shows that the two eights are very evenly matched and a close contest is foreseen for the afternoon of June...
...contest was held this year on the same basis as that of last year, when the cup was awarded to the Choate News. The judges of the present contest, F. V. Field '27, J. F. Barnes '27, and H. W. Foote Jr. '27, are rating the papers that have been submitted on the basis of their news and editorial columns, the appearance of their make-up, the style of form and head lines, the quality of pictures and illustrations, and the character of the writing. The cup for this year's award is being given by the present Senior Board...
...nine papers which remain in the contest were announced last night as the Mercersburg News, the Choate News, the Hotchkiss Record, the Hill School News, the Taft Papyrus, the Loomis Log, the Riverdale Review, the Exonian, and the Peddie News. Most of the sample issues submitted by these papers were printed at various times during the year. Each of them will be read carefully by all of the judges, rediuked according to the traditional custom of the CRIMSON, and finally judged. With the red-inked papers will be sent critical suggestions by the judges to the editors of each...