Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before, counters in the four other boroughs had finished their share of the job. The preferential ballot is conceived so that if a voter's first choice candidate fails to win, his vote is counted for his second or third choice candidate until the offices up for contest are filled. One of the last candidates to be eliminated in The Bronx was Headmaster Frank S. Hackett of the Riverdale Country School. Exulted defeated Schoolmaster Hackett: "Proportional representation is the greatest advance in democratic processes in years. The system is here to stay...
...contest which is expected to test the educational value of two of Massachusetts' leading institutions, the Harvard University debating team will engage in a battle of wits with the Norfolk State prison colony's forensic specialists this Sunday...
...Contest Broadcast...
...Australians, fresh from debates in Japan, Manchukuo, the Philipines, Canada, and the Universities of Stanford, California, Washington, Columbia, and Chicago, intend to stay here several days after the contest...
...Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind that swept across the Trojan plains...