Word: contests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Regrettably the case developed into a contest between lying witnesses...
...became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure of Theodore Roosevelt the Younger as a small, grimacing boy in a sport shirt, invented for the Smith-Roosevelt gubernatorial contest in 1926, has lately been joined by a small, wild-eyed girl in a smock, brandishing a torch labeled "Sectarianism" and herself labeled "Mrs. Willebrandt...
...once wrought at Bayeux, eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening past-figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by which mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...this season the North Carolina warriors have played two games and emerged victorious from both. An excellent opportunity was given the coaches to try the new material in the Wake Forest contest, and the youngsters proved their ability by chalking up four touchdowns in the last period. The final score was 65 to 0. The second game, that with Maryland, showed that the North Carolina defense is not impenetrable as the Maryland offense scored 19 points while the Tarheel backs were putting 26 across...
...fact that Harvard men had applied for 1442 more tickets than are available became known yesterday when the applications for the Army gridiron contest next Saturday were counted. The figures as released by C. F.Getchell, general manager of the H. A. A., are as follows: Applications, Harvard Graduates 31.092, Harvard undergraduates 11,644 making a total of 42,736 for the 41,294 seats allotted to Harvard...