Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their second match of the season tomorrow night at 7 o'clock in the basement of Memorial Hall, while their opponents will be shooting at similar targets some 300 miles away in another subterranean range at Princeton. The two teams will then exchange letters giving the scores for the contest, and the results of the contest will announced some time in the latter part of the week...
Thus last week ended the most flamboyant newspaper circulation contest New York City has witnessed in recent years. But even before prize winners in the first contest were announced, the Post had already embarked on a second and bigger one with $25,000 in prizes; and the tabloids Mirror and Daily News had been drawn into the scramble with offers of $40,000 and $15,000 respectively...
...owner tried to change the paper from a genteel, arch-Tory organ to a rowdy New Deal standardbearer. He succeeded mainly in making it a sensational hodgepodge. By fits & starts, the Post claimed to have 75,000 steady readers when it began its "Game of Names" contest last August...
...journalist named Griffin Barry, her philosophic husband took it almost as a matter of course. But behind even the most determinedly modern thought lie old-fashioned impulses ingrained by generations of social custom, Last spring Countess Russell filed suit for divorce, charging adultery. The Earl did not contest the action of his onetime partner in sex education...
...serve for a literary tea, but so important an event as the Harvard-Oxford debate merits a more vital subject. Harvard and Oxford hold a significant position in both America and Great Britain. Their common spirit of friendly inquiry and intelligent criticism should find play in such a contest...