Word: contested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forrester Andrew Clark of Boston was chosen vice-president of the class. The contest between Clark and David Guarnaccia was the closest of the election, but last year's Freshman four letter man had a comfortable lead over the 1929 football star...
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...interest your readers to know that the Mark Twain Society has inaugurated a contest for the best letter on the subject: "Why I Like Mark Twain." Letters should reach us by Aug. 1, and must not exceed 300 words in length. A prize of $5 is offered...
Even so he is but a pygmy beside the gigantic sumos (wrestlers) of Japan, men who weigh up to 400 pounds, mountains of fat and muscle who boast that they eat ten times the daily ration of the ordinary Japanese. Anciently sumo (literally "horn power") was a contest of strength between trained bulls. Today 1,200 professional wrestlers, divided into teams, "The East" and "The West," perform at two great championship bouts of ten days' length twice yearly. Each tries to force or throw his individual opponent out of a ring; each has practiced to perfection the "twelve throws...
...longer be posiible. Byrd and Amundsen have taken the last chance for glory from Harvard-Yale athletics by charting the road to the Pole. Had the original proposal been carried out, the evils of intercollegiate athletics might never have survived until today. Instead of preparations for the annual football contest, the fall might find the hardy occupants of the Crimson and Blue sledges girding their loins for a final dash across the perilous ice fields of the Arctic to the Pole...