Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janice Pollock was having some weird experiences. A manifestly shapely young woman (128 lbs., 5 ft. 6½; waist: 25½; bust: 34½; hips: 35) with handsome brown hair and eyes, she had journeyed from her home in Columbus, Ohio to Jackson, Miss. to compete in a beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return was to travel around the country...
Charlottesville, Virginia, will be the scene of the contest with the Cavaliers, whom the Crimson have played on eight previous occasions in the Stadium but never away. Harvard has won every one of its past encounters with Virginia, taking the last...
Undefeated and untied in ten games going into yesterday's contest with Yale, the Crimson Freshman soccer team saw its hopes for an undefeated season burled in the mud of the Business School Field by a fighting '50 eleven from down New Haven way by the score of 1 to 0. For three and one half periods the score was deadlocked 0 to 0, with neither squad having much of an advantage, but half-way through te fourth frame the aquamarine boosters counted when their right wing, Dick Griggs, headed the ball into the nets...
Determined to get back into the contest, the Yardlings pressed the attack right up to the final whistle, but were turned back time after time by the sterling play of the Blue fullbacks...
Shortly after Kenary's try for extra point was wide, the half ended to stop the first sustained Yardling drive of the contest on the 35 yard line...