Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Sept. 6 issue I have read the account of the award of the top prizes in the recent Old Gold contest. Is it not true that William R. Staggs, winner of the first prize of $100,000, had to split this prize with his contest partner, Addison Pound Jr., of Gainesville...
Coach Carr has ordered his entire squad to dress for the contest, planning to use a full roster. As for the starting lineup, some doubt now exists because of a leg injury of unknown seriousness, suffered in practice yesterday by Joseph C. Bradley '39, fullback substitute for Captain Dick Powell, who was sidelined with a leg injury on the previous...
...fall intramural season as well as the touch football season will come to a close with the contest between the Harvard House Champions and the Yale Champions. This game will be played on Soldiers Field on the morning of the Yale-Harvard football game...
Thus with three men in two primaries, and a contest in each, the results were sure to give a test of relative strength. With Jerry Mahoney enjoying the support of Postmaster James A. Farley, and Fiorello LaGuardia, a friend and supporter of Franklin Roosevelt, Senator Copeland and Tammany counted on having a monopoly on anti-New Deal votes which might turn up a majority in at least the Republican primary. These were not enough to prevent Dr. Copeland from being badly beaten in both battles...
...Trust Co. sent the tuna to a nearby tavern to be put on ice. Then, suddenly it disappeared. Sportsmanlike Mr. Feigenspan, however, announced that angler Speck would get the $100 if no smaller tuna were caught before Oct. 31. Last week the Feigenspan employe in charge of contest entries returned from his vacation, a trifle surprised at all the fuss. Before he left, he said, he had cached the Speck tuna in the Feigenspan ice plant. Forthwith, he produced the smallest tuna, frozen into a 300 lb. block of ice. However, the whole situation was altered few days later when...