Word: contesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Albert Lebrun of France will attend the ceremonies, and a thousand scientists from all over the world will meet to honor Pasteur and the work of the Institute. All will recall Pasteur's speech at the opening of the institute. "Two opposing laws seem to me now in contest," he said. "The one, a law of blood and death . . . the other, a law of peace, work and health. . . . Which of these two laws will prevail, God only knows." These words seem very fresh to Institute scientists, for they had planned their celebration last November, were forced to postpone...
...Chief" Boston climaxed his point winning with a championship in the unlimited class from George Hooper of Syracuse. He won his final match in the most decisive contest in the last bracket to bring his personal point total to six with a fall earlier in the meet and five points going with first place...
Harvard's basketball forces were tumbled into the collar of the E.I.L. Saturday night in New Haven by Coach Ken Loeffler's Blue charges in a well played 42 to 29 contest. Wes Fesler's Crimson hoopmen played good basketball, but the Elis simply carried too many guns for them in the season's finale...
Doug McKellar and Al Stevens collected 16 and 15 points respectively, chiefly of the long shot variety, to turn a tight defensive battle into a Yale victory. Despite this effective long-range sniping by the two Elis, the contest was not decided until the final ten minutes when Yale staged a determined spurt to put the game...
...other men who participated in the contest, Lee Bird, Chet Legg, Charley Lutz, and Sam White are Juniors, while Homer Peabody is a Sophomore. Yale has selected Tom Erickson and Al Stevens to be co-captains of their 1939-40 cage squad, and the next Harvard leader will probably be chosen at the squad picture Wednesday...