Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard competition for the Barrett Wendell prize will be held Wednesday, April 16, at 8:45 p.m. in the Eliot House junior common room; the Radcliffe contest, for the sophomore Oliver-Dabney prize, will start at 3:30 p.m. in the Ghirlandajo Room of Agassiz House. Free beer will be available at the Harvard event; Radcliffe is to serve tea to the audience...
...warmed the cockles of me heart to see that the Irish came out with high score in another contest-alcoholism-and left the other nationalities trailing behind. We Irish don't do things halfway, particularly in a drinking contest. We just get in there and win-it's only when it's too late we find the darn stuff may be intoxicating...
...English teacher at the University of Arkansas, who was the dominant artistic force in his family. She encouraged Ed in his talent for drawing, gave him an upstairs bedroom for his carpenter shop. There, as a boy of 14, Stone designed the structure that won his first architectural contest-a birdhouse for a contest sponsored by the local lumberyard. Budding Architect Stone's entry and first-prize ($2.50) winner: "A modest shelter for bluebirds, covered with sassafras branches...
Ceiling Limited. In Arlington, Va., a first-grader entering the Washington Post's "Favorite Teacher" essay contest was full of praise for his Miss Davis, added with an eye on next year: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade...
Essentially, this is the story John (A Pride of Lions) Brooks tells in The Man Who Broke Things. His fictional proxy fight leans heavily on recent headline-splashing struggles, notably the Louis Wolfson-Sewell Avery duel for Montgomery Ward. Author Brooks, 37, handles the mechanics of such a contest with authority and relish. He also poses a more serious psychological question: What makes a big company raider tick...