Word: contestant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week's contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
...cause of pure ergot if such a suggestion got abroad, but he said that it would be triply unfortunate since: 1) He had been nominated for the Hanbury Medal to be awarded by the British Pharmaceutical Society on May 15; 2) He had submitted in the Hearst prohibition contest a carefully studied plan, the influence of which might be adversely affected; 3) At the Columbia Commencement he is to present five candidates for honorary degrees and it would be opposed to the University's welfare for him to appear before a suspicious and sneering audience...
...perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., makers of the watch are opening a contest open to students of the University to write a suitable ten word or less advertising headline featuring the watch. One of the watches will be awarded as a prize. Headlines should be mailed to the office of the company at 10 W. 47th St., New York City...
...debate with Princeton and Yale was allowed to lapse this year because of difficulty over a satisfactory date. On this small justification a seventeen year tradition was broken, when such a break severed one of the few remaining ties linking Princeton and Harvard. Though a resumption of the triangular contest is promised for next season, the failure to insure a meeting this spring remains a bit of most unfortunate planning...
...first-year race was even less of a contest, for the rough water conditions proved too much for the Tech oarsmen. Harvard jumped them at the start and drew away easily at a 30 stroke-per- minute clip, with their rivals trailing at a-28, until there were two lengths of open water between the boats at the Harvard Bridge. After the mile mark was passed, the engineers started catching crabs which proved fatal to their chances of winning, and a quarter of a mile from the finish the stroke man caught one which temporarily disabled the entire crew, although...