Word: contests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elected officials in the U.S. who are not chosen by direct popular ballot. Yet no matter how acute the need for reform, the prospects are discouraging. Americans overwhelmingly favor change now, but as new crises develop, they are likely to forget about the problem until some future presidential contest again threatens to capsize the election system. More important, smaller states are certain to reject an amendment that would severely diminish their importance. Since a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states as well as approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress, the old electoral college...
...become one of the longest of Harvard's long traditions, but The Game tomorrow will be the first time in 59 years that both teams have entered the contest undefeated...
That famous Eli-Crimson contest in 1909 featured the old brand of hit-'em-while-they're-down football. The Houghton Machine that Harvard coach Percy Houghton fielded that year had already trounced eight teams before the decisive game with scores as high...
...FIREMEN'S BALL is a flick about nothing very much. It is about a firemen's ball in a Czech village, and during the ball there is a beauty contest and a raffle and a fire. But nothing happens: an oversized peasant granny wins the beauty contest crown, no one wins the raffle, and no one is hurt in the fire. But you won't be disappointed by the eventlessness of this film...
After the Brown contest, Coach Bruce Munro said that he "was really proud of our kids. Even when it got ridiculous in the fourth quarter because some of the starters were at half speed, they never gave...