Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday Judge Harlan said: "If this is an endurance contest, boys, I can stand it." That day the "boys" spent six hours more in jail...
...Century, longtime promoter of student exchanges between the U. S. and Scandinavia, onetime English instructor at Harvard, Henry Goddard Leach decided that he himself was well equipped to do the job. Most students of a philosophic turn of mind, he figured, write poetry. Therefore he announced a college poetry contest. The response was overwhelming. For a chance at cash prizes of $50, $30 and $20, 2,394 college poets bared their souls in nearly 3.000 poems. Plucky Investigator Leach read every single one down to the last line. Last week in Manhattan he was ready to make his report...
...turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...
Germany boasts 10,000 licensed glider pilots, Russia 30,000. In all the U. S. there are less than 200. Last week most of them were gathered on a high ridge in Elmira, N. Y., for the fifth annual gliding contest of the Soaring Society of America. For two days unfavorable winds kept the impatient birdmen on the ground, but on the third day conditions were ideal. Over the flat top of Henry Harris Ridge, newly cleared at a cost of $10,000, floated fleecy cumulus clouds with their promise of thermal currents. Beyond the Chemung Valley 900 ft. below...
...plantations; the Red Hills, where the mountaineers still have no use for Ne groes or revenuers; the swampy Cajan country. He watched a Ku Klux meeting, was on the fringes of a lynching, visited with moonshiners, asked an old conjure woman for professional advice, heard a fiddlers' contest, listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being punished for their refusal to send men for the Confederate army. He listed many a fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain...