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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more cutting of classes this year, more playing around, and less work." President Harold W. Stoke of Louisiana State University, who once taught at Wisconsin, returned there recently and observed: "If you take a freshman at college and give him a convertible and a textbook, you have an uneven contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Hundred Years | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...contest was arranged with the rigorous etiquette of a duel. The two contestants first chose their seconds: a local Catholic layman and a Communist poet. When Father Lombardi refused a public out-of-door contest ("I have no fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God on Trial | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...freshman match was not so close as the score indicates; the Yardlings had the contest sowed up long before the final match...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Wesleyan Bows, 24-6, To Varsity Wrestlers | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

Barbara Fitzgerald, sophomore vicepresident and chairman of the affair, announced the Christmas supper committee's decision. She added that a higher ticket price and the submission of only one manuscript in the story contest also influenced the move. Tickets already purchased will be refunded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Scraps Tuesday Evening Christmas Dinner | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

Outstanding weight-tossers Sam Felton '48, Harry Dreyer, and Jim Burnham will compete at Briggs Cage this afternoon in an official try for the AAU 35-1b. weight throw record. The contest will start at 1 p.m. and precede the full but informal track meet with BU and Northeastern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weight Throwers Seek AAU Record | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

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