Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just where dirt accumulates in carpets and the best way of getting such dirt out of carpets. And they have their machine to get rid of that dirt. Many a judge of housework has approved the Hoover. Thousands have bought it. It had never been entered in a contest, before the Sesquicentennial Exposition, without gaining the best prize offered. These tests and exploits are described in a volume, Hoover?The Story of a Crusade...
...Canton, Ohio, when the Sesquicentennial Exposition managers gave the grand prize to the Eureka and the secondary gold medal to the Hoover. "There was knavery in the awarding," said Hoover men, and their lawyers brought suit, alleging that the Exposition managers unexpectedly changed the rules of their carpet cleaner contest, that they unexpectedly changed their jury of award, that an award of a gold medal to Eureka had been wrongly changed to the award of the grand prize. The Eureka Co. has done damage to the Hoover concern reads the bill of complaint, "by false advertisements and statements which have...
...University lacrosse team will engage Union College at 3 o'clock today at Soldiers Field. This is the second game on the stickmen's schedule, but it will be their first contest with an outside team, the Alumni team having been their first opponents...
...last contest before leaving Cambridge to invade the South, the University baseball team meets the Bates nine at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Yesterday afternoon on the Freshman diamond the 1930 nine trounced a Huntington School nine, 17-1. So long did the Freshmen's assault drag out the game, that the contest was called off on account of darkness after the first half of the seventh inning...