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Word: contestant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harper Brothers have announced the opening of their eighth biennial Prize Noel contest ending on February 1, 1937. A panel of judges has been appointed including Sinclair Lewis, Thornton Wilder, and Lewis Bromfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARPER PRIZE NOVEL CONTEST IS ANNOUNCED | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

Judges for this contest were Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, Emeritus; Robert W. Coues '95, Instructor in English; and Robert F. Young, instructor in Public Speaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Retained in Boylston-Lee Wade Prize Semi-Finals | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...were retained in the semifinals of the Lee Wade and Boylston prize speaking contest held Saturday afternoon in Paine Hall. The public will be admitted to the finals which are also to take place in the Music Building on Wednesday, March 25, at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Retained in Boylston-Lee Wade Prize Semi-Finals | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...basketball teams of New England, the Providence College and Springfield College quintets will tangle at the Indoor Athletic Building tomorrow night at 8.30 o'clock in the First District Elimination game to decide which team will represent the United States in the coming Olympics. Preceding this will be a contest at 7.30 o'clock between Adams House, Crimson Intramural leaders, and the championship Yale College five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TRYOUTS FOR OLYMPICS AT INDOOR GYM | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

...awhile to watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato does give both; and I am glad to read...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/11/1936 | See Source »

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