Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rugby game, starting at 3.30 o'clock at Soldiers Field, will probably prove to be a close contest. Yale already has one victory over the Crimson fifteen, scored at Bermuda...
Best deed of the week was when the Federated ladies conducted their biennial Young Artists' Contest, awarded $1,000 prizes to the three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...
...clock contest the following Harry Cowlesmen will be ready: Jones, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35 Sumner Rodman '35, G. Germain Glidden '36, J. Burke Wilkinson '35, Robert L. Bentley, II '36, Willard E. Ingalls, Jr. '35, James J. Fuld '37, Gordon F. Robertson '36, and Richard W. Gilder...
...House had already passed the Patman Bill providing for immediate payment in greenbacks of the Bonus due in 1945 (TIME, Jan. 21). What lay ahead was well known: Passage of a cash Bonus bill; a Presidential veto; an overriding of the veto by the House; a nip & tuck contest in the Senate in which the veto would probably be sustained on condition the President accept a compromise...
...railroad track. Part of her childhood she spent in the town of Snow Shoe, Pa. In Washington, D. C. she used to attend art classes at the Corcoran Art School but her real ambition was to be a ballet dancer. Just out of high school she won a beauty contest, and in the ensuing years did almost everything from performing in the Vanities and dancing in a Coney Island hotel to teaching swimming at a girls' camp and operating the telephone at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre...