Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...infield, and the pitcher's hesitation on a double-play ball were enough to give Holy Cross three unearned runs in their half of the fourth. Adding three additional tallies and stifling Harvard's attempted rallies the Crusaders held the margin of victory throughout the remainder of the contest...
...South (which once provided us with our most romantic fiction) and deal with such subjects as lynching, starvation among the share-croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals," and childbirth in a claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters...
Although no official word has been forthcoming from the H.A.A. or other sources, it is understood that the predicted close contest for the honors between Milton Green '36, star timber topper, Norman Cahners '36, hammer thrower and coming sprint man, and R. C. Hall '36, high jumper, is responsible for the deadlock...
...most baseball enthusiasts a Friday game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies is about the least exciting spectacle that the major leagues can provide. Nonetheless, in Cincinnati last week 20,000 spectators-about 900% more than normal-crowded Crosley Field to examine such a contest. In the crowd were baseball dignitaries like President Ford Frick of the National League, President William Harridge of the American League. Signal for the performance to start was not the umpire's cry of "Play ball!" but another gesture, equally perfunctory but far more impressive-the pushing of a button in Washington...
George Lee Haskins '35, of Cambridge, has been chosen winner of this year's Phi Beta Kappa prize essay contest as the result of a thesis entitled "The Statute of York and the Interest of the Commons," it was announced last night...