Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign, on which the will of the people is so definitely known by the politicians. The number of these Britons who have declared for the League exceeds the normal voting strength of either the Conservative or the Labor Party. . . . The Labor Party ... has never been more unprepared for a contest than now. It has no effective leadership and cannot consistently fight the Govern ment on sanctions, which will be one of the chief issues of the campaign, because the Laborites themselves at their recent party conference voted almost unanimously in favor of sanctions". (TIME...
Offering a first prize of $200,000, a second of $100,000, three others of $33,000, the Aero Club of France last week announced plans for a round-the-world air race in 1937 similar to last year's England-Australia contest (TIME, Oct. 29). Start. ing and finishing in Paris in connection with the Paris Fine Arts Exposition, the race will be open to flyers of all nations, will follow in general the route taken by Wiley Post in his 1933 globe-circling record of 15.600 miles in seven days...
There appear to be conflicting views of the merits of the contest. Chang's insistent effort to nullify the painting job must have had a deeper motive than mere whim or prejudice. One of our associates has suggested that his purpose was a benevolent one; that he realized the used of work relief--and wanted to spread...
...opinion, Roscoe Pound's greatest gift is his "flypaper memory." As a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he disrupted a Sunday-School contest for memorizers of Bible verses by rattling them off by the chapter after one reading. Years later the members of a Neighborhood Club in Belmont, Mass., who met weekly to hear a paper by one of their number, were nonplussed by Member Pound's habit of arising after each paper, no matter what the subject, to give a more authoritative treatment. His particular interests are botany, Freemasonry, military history of the Civil...
Cash prizes for paintings, drawings, and photographs are being offered by the Fine Arts Guild in a contest open to all undergraduates and first year graduate students. The contest, which closes Saturday, October 19, includes four classes, oil paintings, water colors, drawings, and photographs...