Word: contests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three students hit the jackpot in the University's store of prizes, netting over $1000 for winning essays in the annual Bowdoin contest, it was announced yesterday...
...Strong Flood. Last week, after four rancorous ballots, Li won a clean victory. It had not been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
...Godin took over for Connolly after six and two-thirds innings, and set the Cadets down without a hit for the last two frames; but Conover continued obdurate, leaving six Crimson runners on base and striking out seven men during the contest...
Lloyd Harper's high-flying Junor Varsity baseball club will be shooting for its ninth straight victory this afternoon when it opens fire on the Springfield nine. The contest is scheduled for the Soldiers Field diamond at 4 o'clock...
Even without the draft to help them out, Navy is the logical candidate to win the Adams Cup tomorrow in the triangular contest over the Henley distance, The Middies have seven veterans from last year's formidable boatload, and as if that weren't enough, they have already turned in comfortable victories over both Princeton and Yale...