Word: contestant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alert young fourth, fifth and sixth graders perched on the edges of their chairs and strained for the answers to such posers. Each studio was jammed with soprano cheering sections from competing schools. Teachers, who had coached their hopefuls for competition, watched nervously. The program was Quizdown, an interschool contest conducted on old-fashioned spelling-bee lines...
...beat Byrd to the icecaps. A gaudy pseudo-scientific yarn called The President of the United States, Detective, by H. R. Heard (who, as Gerald Heard, is also a Southern California cult-leader), last week won first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth...
Judges of the contest, third this term for the Debate Council, included: Arthur G. Aubie, teaching fellow in Economics: Archibald J. Byrne '40, teaching fellow in English; and Cleveland C. Cram, Jr. '41, teacing fellow in Government. The judges were unanimous in their decision that Bahn was the most able speaker of the evening...
Immediately after the tangle with the Lions, Eckstein and Swartzman will head for West Point, where they will enter into an extemporaneous speaking contest with Yale, Princeton and Army on March...
Although the Cornell grapplers lost to Army by a larger margin than the Crimson did, the match at Ithaca shapes up as a close one, because the stronger Cornell classes coincide with the weaker ones of the Varsity. The fate of the lightweights will probably decide the contest...