Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the opening of the lightweights' racing schedule little more than four weeks away, the oarsmen face an intensive training period. The first lightweight race will be on April 18, followed a week later by the first heavyweight contest...
Playing number four for the Crimson, James W. B. Benkard turned in one of the contest's outstanding performances by playing and winning two singles and one doubles match in one day. In singles, he defeated Eli three-letter-man Gene Scott 6-4, 6-3. He then whipped Swing Meyer in the extra quarter-finals match. The only player to lose for Harvard was William Post, Jr., who after taking the first set, lost the last two to Meyer, 6-0, 6-1. The doubles pairs of Dwight Davis and Tuckerman, and Benkard and John Davis, won quickly, losing...
...varsity fencing team finished eighth out of eleven schools in the Eastern Intercollegiate Fencing Championship last Friday and Saturday with an overall record of 32 wins and 58 losses. The contest was held at the Hotel Concourse Plaza in New York...
Getting in the victims as well as the victors to write the German peace had a plausible sound, but it was also part of the Russian tactics to contest the West's legal right to be in Berlin, as conquerors, until a peace treaty is concluded. Khrushchev was also aiming to pack the meeting. The British were inclined to give way on admission of the Czechs and Poles to the conference table...
...kept, John Seymour Letcher Jr. sat jackknifed in a bus seat, lost in a scientific diagram he was sketching. Next day Letcher, who had won his Washington trip by building a particle accelerator, learned that he had won again. His prize: the $7,500 top award in the Westinghouse contest...