Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial success, and will attract wide publicity. It will do nothing, however, toward "burying the hatchet" between Princeton and Harvard. For the hatchet has been buried ever since the break eleven months ago, and the resumption of athletic relations must await the time when a Princeton-Harvard undergraduate contest will not cause the reappearance of this weapon. For graduates of one college to play football with graduates of another college may or may not be enjoyable for the gentlemen concerned, and may or may not give pleasure to the thousands who come to spend an autumn Sunday afternoon watching them...
...Announcer Graham McNamee could scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked...
...best girls of Canada and France competed against the best girls of the U. S., and some of them were beautiful-but it was not a beauty contest. They went at one another with clubs, at Cherry Valley, Long Island. Mrs. G. Henry Stetson of Philadelphia, took to the first tee a temperature of 102 degrees (la grippe). She came to the 18th green with a stroke score of 96, failing to qualify, losing her chance to defend the national golf championship which she won last year. Ada Mackenzie, Canadian, broke the women's record for the Cherry Valley...
...Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ) music, chanting, ram's horning and sermons of its Rosh Hashonah (Jewish New Year's) services this week. ¶The Jewish Tribune, weekly magazine, learned in editorials, popular in text, in its Rosh Hashonah number issued last week, started a contest among its readers to decide "which Jew, by his service to America, deserves to be honored with a statue. ... No Jew has been nationally honored by the community for his services to America. In New York City, the Jews number about a third of the general population and yet there...
...White Calf, an Indian whose avaricious profile appears on all U. S. five-cent pieces, was brought to the fair with some of his tribesmen in a special historic coach. One Gladys Miller, a member of the treasury department of the B. & O., who acquired, in a recent beauty contest, the cognomen, "Miss Maryland," was trundled along upon a float. Governor of Maryland Albert C. Ritchie officiated at the opening of the show. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, too, was present...