Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promote the study of international private and public law," the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden, Rolland, his announced an international prize essay contest, open to all scholars who can write German, English, French or Dutch. The essay is to be "a critical and complete study, based exclusively on the published sources, of the origin of the treaties of London of April 19, 1838 (1830-1839), as well as of the international legal relations between Belgium and the Netherlands since that date...
...outline, the story concerns the contest between the student body of a small-town high school and a peculiarly childish gangster named Louis Garrett (Charles Bickford). When the gangster shoots a Hebrew tailor for refusing to pay for "protection," the schoolboys indignantly try to find evidence that will convict him. When the gangster shoots a schoolboy whom he finds skulking in his bedroom, the schoolboys form a secret society for revenge. Here Director DeMille, more up to date in method than in ideology, stole a few ideas from Nerofilm's M. Whistling bars from "Yankee Doodle" as a code...
...third annual Summer School Regatta, held on the Charles on Thursday and Friday. The number of entries, large though it was, was not a record, nor were there many meet records broken, but the men and women rowers chalked up excellent times in a smoothly handled two-day contest. Of the 91 entries, medals were awarded to 18 winners of first and second places, ten of them men and eight female rowers...
...group of distinguished officials, including James Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, will and color to the third annual Summer School rowing regatta. The contest will take place this Thursday and Friday afternoon, and the 91 entrants so far are evenly divided between the four women's and five men's events...
...women's contest was really unnecessary. Well-informed horseshoe pitchers are aware that the best women pitchers in the U. S. are the Schultz sisters of Harvey, Ill., Caroline and Charlotte, who have been exhibiting their skill in the Midwest, where horseshoe pitching principally thrives, for the last seven years. The Schultz sisters are plump, brown and stocky with bobbed brown hair. Caroline is 21, Charlotte 22. Since they took up their pastime in 1926, they have pitched horseshoes three times every day on their own courts and either of them will guarantee 200 ringers in 30 minutes. Once...