Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove he has a sense of humor, Minister Goebbels' newssheet, Der Angriff, thereupon began a joke contest. First prize...
Prize-winning poem in a patriotic literature contest held by Kodan Kurabu, popular Tokyo monthly, was written by a naval flier...
Biggest poetic outpouring of Japan is the annual Imperial poetry contest, the winners of which were announced last week by the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...
Coach Al Dewey's Freshmen pucksters enter their first major contest when they face-off with the strong Princeton first-year sextet in the Boston Arena at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Victims of an 8 to 0 lacing at the hands of the strong Exeter team, the Yardlings will be out to turn the tables against the favored Tiger cubs...
...other game, Eliot was nosed out in the final minutes after holding the lead for three-quarters of the contest by Dunster. The Funsters began ate in the third period to whittle the elephant down to 13-12, and then went head with two successive goals to put he game away...