Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deacons were able to edge Dunster House by seven and one-half points by winning the final event of the year, the interhouse track meet. The Kirkland track team swept the final 22-0yard dash, winning by 19 points. The meet became a two-team contest between the only Houses still in contention for the trophy...
...error on almost all its predictions does not dampen the enthusiasm which attends this yellow journalistic ritual, and again this year other members of the Harvard community may try to pin the tail on the donkey. The CRIMSON will once more hold its oft-acclaimed Name the Honoraries Contest, and this spring the prize will be a slightly used copy of the CRIMSON Telephone Directory--brought up to date by numerous corrections...
Following the publication of the survey, the A.M.A. strongly criticized the use of "pep pills" in any sort of contest. The nationwide poll showed, however, that only one per cent of coaches administer such drugs to their athletes...
...took my prayer book to the contest," gasped the striking girl in the white evening gown, "but I never thought I'd win it." Last week Sophomore Nancy Street, 19, was indeed voted Miss Indiana University in the first beauty contest she ever entered. Real reason for her surprise: Nancy is a Negro, the first of her race to become a beauty queen on the Indiana campus. A speech and theater major, she defeated 14 white coeds with her good looks and a dance interpretation of Harlem Nocturne, will now compete for the state's Miss Indiana title...
...yield. He makes the heroine a present of the train. Unfortunately, he announces with an evil snicker, that leaves him without a train to serve the town. The horrified townspeople turn against the heroine. Has the villain triumphed? As far as the spectator is concerned, there was never any contest. Who could prefer a conventionally pretty Hollywood Belinda to the most hilarious Rassendale who ever slept in sneer-curlers...