Word: contests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggressive Penn field hockey team rubbed salt into the wounds of the Harvard squad, still suffering from Friday's 2-1 loss to Cornell, by winning last night's contest at Franklin Field in Philadelphia...
...contest came down to the last five minutes in the city that gave Spiro Agnew his political start and was decided by a Jones to Roger Carr aerial, Jones' third touchdown pass and Carr's second touchdown catch of the evening. Jones lofted the ball 30 yards in the air to Carr who gathered it in at the five-yard line before tiptoeing inside the flag at the right corner of the end-zone...
...Inside, the advance woman is pacing nervously. There are two men and three pimply teenagers in light blue tuxedos with too-red-to-be-real roses pinned to their lapels. A sign outside the auditorium reads, "The First Annual Ms. Senior Sweetheart Pageant." No kidding--a senior citizens' beauty contest. Anything for a vote...
Cambridge lost only one seat in the House, but lost nothing in the Senate. State Representative Thomas H.D. Mahoney would have had to oppose Rep. Charles F. Flaherty in a head-to-head contest for the combined East Cambridge representative district. Mahoney opted instead to take a sabbatical from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is chairman of the History section of the Humanities Department. "In effect, I'm also taking a sabbatical from politics," Mahoney said...
Following home Tim Cummins of Navy and Dartmouth's Art Switchenko, Ed Sheehan was Harvard's top finisher. Sheehan, running his best race of the season, was in good shape throughout the race, moving up from fifth to third in the second half of the contest...