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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn scored what may be its only Ivy victory and Brown racked up the first of what will certainly be many Ivy defeats in another League contest at Philadelphia. Bill Creeden and Cabot Knowlton led a sporadic Quaker offense and the defense looked good against the League's weakest attack. The score...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Indians and Tigers Score Impressive Wins Saturday | 10/10/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard may make the mistakes. If, for instance, one of those fast but fragile backs, bobbles the ball a few times, the contest could grind on to a two touchdown to two touchdown affair, with the Crimson winning by a kick...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: After 20 Years, B.U. Is Ready, But Harvard Is Just Too Good | 10/7/1967 | See Source »

Louise Day Hicks is a bulky grandmother who would not stand out in a supermarket crowd. Yet she stood out so far from nine male candidates in Boston's nonpartisan primary last week that she may well become the city's next mayor. With the general-election contest narrowed to herself and a bland fellow Democrat, Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, it would take a rash bookie to rate the lady an underdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Massachusetts: Southies' Comfort | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...Contest Against Shadows. Noting Kennedy's obsessive risk taking, his compulsive rudeness and his legendary ruthlessness, Shannon offers the familiar explanation: they resulted from a lifelong "contest against shadows" that were cast by his older brothers and his strong-willed father. In a family that dismissed second best as no better than last, Bobby developed from what one acquaintance called "a hell of a nice little boy" into what Shannon describes as a ferocious, "mildly sadistic" competitor who inherited "a certain natural savagery" from his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Wrong (and Right) With Bobby | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...another contest of interest to the Crimson, Columbia upset Colgate 17-14 behind the running and passing of Marty Domres. The junior quarterback contributed 255 yards in a game the Lions dominated, reversing last year's 38-0 loss to the Red Raiders...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall, | Title: Crimson Eleven May Find B.U. An Easy Touch | 10/3/1967 | See Source »

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