Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play came in the last few minutes of the tightly fought contest. Both teams expected a pass when Miss Coolidge charged through the forward line to drive a neatly placed shot past the unsuspecting goalie...
...tennis, the girls from Providence took the laurels home with them, after a close 2 to 1 contest on the courts. Pembroke won both singles matches but dropped the double. Darkness prevented the final doubles match from being played...
...quays of the sluggish Seine were lined last week with 300 entrants in Paris' annual fishing contest. Three times during the afternoon cheers rang out from the thousands who jammed nearby streets and bridges-fish had actually been caught. After rods & reels had been put away, President Auguste Minville of the Union des Pĕcheurs de Paris cheerfully admitted that "because the Seine is the drainage ditch of the world, all fish taken from it are blind, hunchbacked and constipated," in addition to being rather small. Total weight of the afternoon's catch (three minnows): 25 grams...
...part, Agar, going home to his mother, announced that he would not contest Shirley's divorce. Said he: "I agree with Shirley that it must be done in a dignified manner...
...post-game press conference, Valpey looked just about as sad as he did after the 1948 Dartmouth contest, another game they could have won, but didn...