Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloodletting of a direct thrust at the Germans. Almost up to D-day itself, and while all plans for it had long since been put in motion, the Prime Minister plumped for an all-out attack against the "soft underbelly" of Europe (Italy, the Balkans, southern France). In this contest Ike proved just as stubborn as Churchill, and won every exchange...
...CRIMSON, at that time the Magenta, was trying to push an annual football game between Harvard and Yale. This materialized for the first time in 1875 when the Crimson won the first contest in the newly-started series...
...Harvard-Yale football games that not even prohibition could spoil. Although the WTCU will tell you that nobody could get hold of liquor in those days, old alumni insist that Stadium swizzhing never reached its peak until the 1920's. The CRIMSON of 1927 reported that "today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking indoors...
Since 1928 Gelotte hasn't missed a Crimson home contest, and in the meantime his little 16 mm. gimmick has spread to football fields across the nation...
...from any of several sets around the Square. Winthrop House's set will be on, as well as the Union's, since the Union Dance Committee plans to delay decorating the small common room for the evening dance in order to allow Freshmen to crowd the room for the contest. Sets in the Varsity Club and in Cronin's restaurant beerhall will also be tuned...