Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More accustomed to calculating the breezes, Old Campaigner Gonzales came out ahead, 6-3, 6-3. But the victory gave Pancho only a slim 5-4 lead in the 100-match contest that started in Brisbane and is planned to wander all over the world. So close is the competition that next day in Christchurch, Lew zeroed in on the base line and pounded Pancho's backhand so aggressively that he evened the score in straight sets...
...huge golden screen, Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako harkened approvingly to verse by 15 finalists chosen from a record 17,238 entrants trying their hand at the formal 31-syllable waka. Then they listened solemnly while their own poems were read. The imperial family does not compete in the contest itself, this year featuring the subject of "Clouds." Hirohito's effort, read five times...
State Senator Richard Richards, the fair-haired boy of young Democracy, fared scarcely better against Kuchel in Eisenhower's 1956 popularity contest. Idealists like Ray Simpson in the 18th C.D. spoke long and futile words about the hydrogen bomb and American foreign policy. The public delivered no mandates...
Success in these matches, according to Barnaby, will depend entirely on how well the varsity develops by mid-February. At present Princeton and Yale are probably the best teams among Ivy opponents. Harvard won its match with the Bulldogs last season, but dropped the Tiger contest...
...Crimson team is as yet something of an unknown quantity. Graduation made heavy inroads on last year's fine squad and tonight's contest will provide the first varsity competition for a number of the Crimson entrants...