Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, Midwest Hotel Show officials confessed they had been unable to pick a suitable substitute name for hors d'oeumes from 988 words submitted in a contest, such as "cavanchocees," "exdiores." Proclaimed Hotelman William M. Dewey, appointing a new committee to continue the search for a synonym: "This is a very, very serious thing we are undertaking...
...first match will be with the Bermuda Rugby Club, while on the second day a team, picked from Crimson and Princeton players, will oppose the club again. For the third and final contest of the trip, the Ruggers will face Princeton...
...Boylston Competition, held annually en Paine Hall of the Music Building, is the oldest collegiate elocution contest in the United States. The Lee Wade prize was established later with the stipulation that it be called the first prize of the evening...
...second day, Coach Ulen will swim Don Barker, Captain John Colony, Dario Berizzi, and Hutter. In addition there is a possibility that the Crimson iron-man captain-elect will compete in the 220 yard free-style event, which he won in record breaking time in the Yale contest...
...Nicholas Boylston founded two Boylston Prizes for Elocution in honor of his uncle, Nicholas Boylston, who established the professorship which bears his name today. The awards stipulated a competition open to seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing in Harvard College, to be decided by finalists in an annual contest. Tonight, well over a century later, ten Harvard undergraduate finalists will do verbal battle in the Music Building for these prizes, and for their more recent counterpart, the Lee Wade Prize, founded...