Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race will be run from the Weeks Memorial foot-bridge upsteram to the Bost House, a course of about 300 yards. Blake Dennison, who is running the contest will award medals to the first and second placers in each final heat...
Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard, who a few years ago won a Florida beauty contest, received the following letter...
Lacking a Toscanini to dominate its fitful orchestra, Bayreuth concentrated on Impresario Heinz Tietjen's elaborate scenic effects, jammed the stage with 700 people in the song-contest scene. Most distinguished performance was the Pogner of famed Basso Alexander Kipnis. Eva was sung by Metropolitan's Soprano Maria Müller...
...respective tasks to my unlimited satisfaction and I am confident Bushman and Bloodhound are doing the best they know, each according to his light. As to the writer of the letter, John Limond Hart, it is merely that I challenge his judgment, and, then, in sorrow. I do not contest his qualifications to present any of the refinements, the mysteries of life-art, archaeology, technocracy, zoology, psychology, thyroid condition, longevity-because he has reached that age when, to the normal American male youth, adolescence goes definitely over the top with a bang, when all knowledge either has been acquired...
Saturday athletic teams representing two of the greatest American and English universities enjoyed an afternoon of friendly rivalry in track and field events at the Stadium. There are pacificists in this country who make great rejoicing every time there is such a contest, an international debate, an exchange professorship, or a worldwide congress of scientists, as if every group that contained citizens from two different nations was a link in the chain to hold back the dogs of war. The newspapers know this and pepper their columns with items about good-will flights and good-will conventions...