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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position in League A by the win, Coach Cowle's men are looking ahead to their objective match of the year with Yale on Saturday in New Haven. Since Yale downed Princeton six to one, and the Crimson defeated the Tigers 7-0 in a very close match, the contest on Saturday is expected to test the racqueteers to the limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Downs Crimson Clubmen by Score of 5 to 1 | 2/12/1936 | See Source »

...Louisiana at 10. Though Huey Long recorded in his autobiography that he met Rose McConnell while attending school at Shreveport and married her a year later at 19, the tale is firmly imbedded in U. S. legend of how their love began when she won a cake-baking contest which he had sponsored as a 17-year-old salesman of cottonseed oil shortening. Not until Senator Long began nursing Presidential aspirations did he begin to draw his wife occasionally out of the domestic shadows in which she kept herself after he got into the national spotlight. She rarely visited Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Lady from Louisiana | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...entries submitted must be fiction, written in the short story formal. No essays or poetry will be considered by the judges of the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE JUDGE IN SHORT STORY CONTEST | 2/7/1936 | See Source »

...award of $100 is offered for the best specimen submitted in the Third Annual Short Story Contest sponsored by Story Magazine in colleges throughout the country. Harvard entries in the competition will be judged by editors of the Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE JUDGE IN SHORT STORY CONTEST | 2/7/1936 | See Source »

Fifty dollars will be awarded to the winner of the second prize. By the terms of the contest each colleges may submit two entries, each of which must be certified by a member of the Faculty. Contestants may submit as many stories as they wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE JUDGE IN SHORT STORY CONTEST | 2/7/1936 | See Source »

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