Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home Varsity baseball games will be broadcast this year from Soldiers Field by the Boston station WCOP. The first contest to go on the air will be the Pennsylvania game on Friday...
Wigglesworth was leading the closest contest played this year by 17 to 3 in the third inning. At the opening of the ninth inning Matthews was trailing 28 to 21, but put on a spirited rally the result of which was twelve runs...
Usually the most interesting game of the year, yesterday's contest by reason of its one-sidedness, proved a distinct disappointment. Perhaps the greatest features were the umpiring of Abeles and Cutting, the onlooking of Buel and Burlingame, and the general obnoxious prominence of Evarts...
Embryonic screen writers were told that a screen story to be successful must contain the stock formula of "Boy meets girl". Studio executives, she said, assign writers to build such stories around a star, a baby starlet, 100 beauty contest winners, a song, or somebody's wife's hat. You must be able to tell the director your story in one sentence, she warned, or it will not be considered...
...competition. Since a competition by definition means more than one candidate, an urgent appeal was forthcoming from Varsity manager Gray Thoron '38 for more Yardling managerial fodder. Aspirants are asked to report to the Dillon Field House at 2:15 today. The winner of the spring contest will receive his numerals...