Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reserved seats for the M. I. T. game on December 12 and the University Club game on December 17 will cost $1.00, and for the McGill game on December 21 and the Toronto contest on January 3 will cost $1.50. Seats for these games and for the game with Toronto in Madison Square Garden, New York, on New Year's Eve, may be obtained...
...contest between two men, one event may be decisive. In a contest of teams, the teams must play each other many times before it is possible to decide which one is better. Thus it is impossible to decide which football team is the U. S. champion and even sectional championships are usually disputed. If one victory is taken as proof of superiority, it might be shown that a grammar school eleven in Eastern Iowa has the most powerful football team in the U. S. If not, it is only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes...
...bicycle race started in Manhattan last week and Milton C. Crandall arrived there with plans for a marathon talking contest which he will hold in January hoping that someone will beat the record of German Herr Parlatus who recently spoke in Berlin...
...indeed is the state of musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
...contest will last three months February, March and April, and the winning storiette will be published each month in The Writer. Manuscripts must be sent in before January 5, 1929 to be considered in the February competition, to the Contest Editor, The Writer, Harvard Square, Cambridge...