Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Ide who scored their team's first eight points, the varsity tied the score on a layup by Bob Bowditch, then went ahead to stay on a free threw by Bry Danner. Two of the visitors' top scorers were burdened with three personal fouls early in the contest helping the Crimson to maintain a lead of between four and fourteen points...
...espouse and spread the libertarian philosophy of freedom from all institutional control and of men's absolute rights. It invites men and women from 16 to 60 to its five two-week summer sessions. Tuition and meals for two weeks cost only $150, and there is an essay contest for scholarship applicants...
Everything except overconfidence will be on the Crimson squash team's side today, when it meets a weak Amherst squad in an away contest. Since its 8-1 victory over Navy, Harvard ranks as one of the Eastern Intercollegiate League's most dangerous title contenders. Having lost to Navy by an identical score, Amherst is a definite underdog in today's contest...
...that he has extended his mid-December Midwest speaking tour to include stops at Dallas, Houston, Tulsa, St. Louis and Miami. Rocky, who has already covered nearly 8,000 miles testing the sentiments of both professionals and amateurs, told a "background" session of reporters that he now regards the contest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination as a campaign of the "pros against the people." In other words, he must beguile the Republican-in-the-street-and the independent voter -in order to win over the professional Republicans, now massively lined up behind Vice President Richard Nixon. Although Rockefeller is still...
...must realize," said Watson, "that the Communists are fully committed to the contest for the underdeveloped nations, while at times it appears that we haven't really decided whether we are competing or not. We must realize that some sacrifice is necessary. We can't do all the things necessary for the U.S. to do -in this country and abroad-and still proceed on the 'business-as-usual' basis. One of our first sacrifices must be a willingness to accept higher taxes, if necessary, in order to accomplish our purpose of keeping America ahead...