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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most people in Cambridge today, a football game at Soldiers Field will be the climax of the weekend. But for the Crimson Key Society, the Harvard-Yale contest will only be a breather in a weekend of strenuous activity that will not and until the last Yalies have embarked for their New Haven homes...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Crimson Key Society Will Paint Town Red for Blue Infiltrators | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

...Christmas story competition is an annual event for the Radcliffe Christmas Supper. Students often begin their scripts as early as June in anticipation of the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Supper to Be Held In Agassiz on December 14 | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

Most important game--for the wavering spectator--is the top-of-the-heap contest between Kirkland, the Harvard champ, and Berkeley, Yale's top College. Both squads in this blue-chip game will be using the single wing formation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Games Cover Soldiers Field | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...enclosed notice (see below) appeared in the Nov. 9th edition of the New Bedford Standard-Times. It would seem to me that the H. A. A. would take care of the requests of the students and graduates before they began to give out so highly prized tickets as contest prizes. It is no wonder that students and grads are lucky to get half-way decent seats for the Yale game. E. W. Talmage '50 E. P. Robbins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Probes Ticket Tangle | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

...death already. But occasionally, script-writers emerge with some fortunate stroke that is worthy of Chester Gould, or possibly Al Capp. The Sword was such a creation, and anybody who cares to endure several dozen kiddie shows might find another. Incidentally, every program is running some sort of contest. Prizes are usually bikes or toy pistols, but once in a while a car or Bendix pops into the lineup. Such items are worth trying for. It means eating lots of Ralston and swilling Ovaltine, but the competitors are minor league, and the potential rewards are staggering. Tom Mix, for instance...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

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