Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a two hour elimination speech contest, six qualifiers for the Freshman debating team to face Princeton and Yale on May 19 were chosen yesterday by Cecil F. Rowe '31, advisor to the Yardlings...
Last night Skip declared that today's contest will be a "good indication for the rest of the season, and will certainly be decided by a very close score...
...totals are not complete, and the game with Norfolk is not included as a regular contest.) Player G AB R H PO A H AVE. Keyes, ss 1 4 0 2 2 4 2 .500 Merrill, 2b 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 .500 Lupien, 1b 6 26 4 11 66 5 2 .423 Johns, 2b, p 6 24 7 10 9 16 1 .417 Fulton, c 6 10 0 7 19 9 4 .368 Hoye, lf 6 27 2 9 6 0 0 .333 Groadahl, 3b 6 27 4 9 6 10 0 .333 Gannett...
...time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident that befalls the two brothers in the woods...
...ground." Mark Sullivan "would be missed . . . even if the world would still manage nicely without the pontifications that waddle through his worried columns." Frank R. Kent "delights in cruel jibes and acidulous comment that he will direct at a straw man." Boake Carter "could enter any intellectual goldfish swallowing contest." Arthur Krock "sometimes permits himself, without abating a whit of his stately authoritativeness, to 'hit too closely to the belt." Heywood Broun "is a genial philosopher who declines to take himself too seriously." Raymond Clapper "is one of the fairest, most objective and most intelligent of them...