Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Windsor, Ontario, sturdy subjects of George Windsor decided not to celebrate the Jubilee with a beauty contest "because such contests give the girls a false idea of good looks and importance...
Beaten only once in five starts, the Harvard Rugby Club will meet, in its first home contest, Long Island University's first-improving fifteen on Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock today...
With Frederick DeW. Bolman '35, president of the Council, presiding, the home debate will be held at 8 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. Alternates for the Yale contest will be W. Tucker Dean '37, Hubert H. Nexon '37, and Bennett Frankel '37, whereas those assisting at the Princeton debate will be Harold W. Danser '37, James B. Hallett '37, and Edward G. Duggan...
...content with that, however, Mr. Andrews proceeded to turn clerks in grocery stores handling Seminole toilet paper into Hupp salesmen. Each clerk was given a book of blank introductions to local Hupp dealers, asked to fill in the name of any grocery customer interested in either the Seminole contest or a new Hupmobile. If the local dealer later sold a Hupmobile to a grocery customer, the store clerk received $5 from Hupp. If twelve of the store clerk's prospects bought Hupmo-biles, he received a Hupmobile free. With Seminole planning bigger & better contests, Super-Salesman Andrews...
...Paul, Kenneth Makepeace won a car for himself in a department store contest by guessing the number of revolutions made per week by the wheel of a free-running automobile in the store. Then with the same technique he won a car for his friend Julius Janisch, sued for half the profits. Kenneth Makepeace's figuring: "I put a pencil against the wheel and counted the number of times the valve stem hit it. That was the revolutions per minute. I multiplied that figure by the number of minutes per week in an 81-hour day. The next step...