Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams have excellent records to date and the indications are for a very close contest. On the basis of comparative scores the two teams seem to be very evenly matched. Holy Cross having administered an 11 to 1 defeat to the Exeter nine, while the schoolboys bowed to the Crimson first year men by a 12 to 1 score...
...Second University baseball team will journey to Andover this afternoon to engage the schoolboy nine in its fifth contest of the season
...worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy & Min Gump became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries (TIME, April 23). To the victor belong the boasts; and boast the Tribune...
...commercial shrewdness of Son Forbes is evident in every column of Junior Englewood. To stimulate circulation he offers prizes of $1 and $2 for printable jokes and conundrums by youngsters, for essays by teachers. His biggest prize contest has the subject: "What I want...
...that caused his withdrawal, however, for Smith's victory shows that opposition to the party's only hope is fast receding. Anti-Catholics, drys, and anti-Tammany men alike cannot but admit that no one of their candidates would have the ghost of a show in a nation-wide contest with Smith, and the policy of backing the winner is claiming more and more of them as the Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons" set up by his enemies, but that is all the more...