Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of official policy of avoiding contests where the possibility of success is dim, it is gratifying to salute the two Radcliffe dormitories which have so wisely declined to enter Glamour magazine's contest for America's best dressed college girls...
...rejecting the contest, spokesmen for the Houses, their costumes eloquently endorsing their words, condemned the idea as "un-Radcliffe." The vigor with which the rejection was made, however, has stimulated detractors to ask whether this enthusiasm is not too much of a good thing. Some have even suggested that funds from recent gifts should be set aside for blanket distribution of Vogue, or if this is too abrupt, of Seventeen...
...varsity hockey team coasted into the third period of Saturday night's contest at Providence with a seemingly secure 4-0 lead over Brown. Just 18 minutes and 14 seconds later, the embattled Crimson was fighting desperately to maintain its shaky 6-4 margin, which none too soon became the final score...
...last time heads were counted, the figures showed that seven of every ten Jamaicans were born out of wedlock. But who cares? Each May, during Baby & Child Week, every child, legitimate or illegitimate, is welcome to compete in the baby beauty contest; the only distinction is that winners whose parents are married get a bonus. Harking back to African tradition, many women in Jamaica cheerfully prove themselves by producing a healthy child before expecting island males to consider them seriously as wives. Yet even then, Jamaican men tend to vanish magically when marriage is mentioned...
...Rivalry (by Norman Corwin) recreates the fateful Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Douglas won the contest, in that he was re-elected Senator from Illinois, but the debates helped send Lincoln on to the presidency. In the main, Lincoln and Douglas argued three issues: 1) the extension of slavery, 2) the status of the Negro, 3) the right of the states to regulate the Negro's status. Basically, the debate of states' rights v. human rights is still passionately going...