Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of last night's contest the Warren Club will clash with the Williston Club, winner of Thursday's semi-final argument. The finals are to be held in January...
...Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British H. G. Keith, Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture of North Borneo...
...fact, the effectiveness of the Harlow aerial shelters may be the deciding point of the contest, as Harvard, with Captain Torbie Macdonald again only a spectator, attempts to repulse another Army invasion on Soldiers Field. Harvard has not beaten the Cadets since 1931 when Barry Wood's winged messages of death spelled a 14 to 13 victory...
...their faith in their team and its coaches, because they were sure that Harvard had a team with enough ability and spirit to put up a good battle against even so favored a foe as Princeton. This faith has been fulfilled, for Saturday's game was a closely-fought contest, with both teams showing a heads-up brand of play. The team and coaches showed not only that they can rise above criticism, but that they can justify the confidence of their college-mates...
...turned on for the final quarter of a hectic football battle in Tigertown last Friday as the Princeton Jayvees came from behind in a wild and wools battle to take the measure of the Crimson Junior Varsity, 15 t 13. A crowd of about 250 witnessed the contest on University field...