Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last contest of the season will take place on Saturday, when both Varsity and Jayvees will take on the French Rugby Club at Soldiers Field...
Latest distinction granted this University comes as a result of the capabilities of four of its students and one of its librarians. Failing to see why Harvard should be excluded from activities in which Greater Boston shows keen interest, these five entered the current "Zain" ad-writing contest--and emerged prize-winners...
...librarian, although we can't imagine why, concocted a blurb on bananas--and the return mail brought a congratulatory note (with prize). We should like to recommend to this same quintet that they now look to the University's honor in the "Blotto" contest, sponsored by a local newspaper. Fair Harvard...
When Mussolini sits down to dictate his terms of settlement, term which no one can now contest, the nations that have backed the wrong horse may see their way to adopting an entirely new diplomatic technique. Either the League must be strongly supported to the common advantage of all, or the French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...Syrians. Samuel David, 43, emigrated from Syria to Toledo 15 years ago. He smokes costly Turkish cigarets, drives a big Packard, and when the votes were counted in Manhattan after last autumn's stormy election, Samuel David was at hand. When Samuel David failed to win the contest, he promptly charged that it had been uncanonically conducted. Archbishop Theodosios offered to compromise by elevating both Bashir and David, then withdrew that offer. Feeling he had been double-crossed, Samuel David marshaled Syrian followers about him. By last week he was ready to declare himself Syrian Archbishop of North America...