Word: joustings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This, the first annual brain joust between Harvard and Yale tens, was the result of a $125,000 gift of Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard. The gift provides a prize of $5,000 worth of books each year to the winning team...
...lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery resounded as the hardy matron, paired with G. Peabody Gardner Jr., walked forth for a third joust-this time the finals of the mixed doubles. Mrs. Wightman still displayed no sign of fatigue; gave Mr. Gardner excellent support; helped earn her third title of the day, defeating two promising youngsters, Miss Sarah Palfrey and Malcolm Hill...
...pleasant thing to enter any joust, especially since the radio and the press make of every salute a mighty warery But when there are so many other activities in which to attempt the spectacular, it is rather unfortunate that the fall guy, college football, must be worried from his vernal sleep...
...last someone has come to their defense--don Quixote like to joust at the legions of culture and criticism. For the "New Republic" has found a champion of billboard beauty who dares to deny that nature is ever beautiful--that man, as exemplified by billboards is always vile. "This attitude," he writes, "is illogical and irreligious. There are vast stretches in New Jersey and Nebraska where billboards give life to dull vistas and a reminder that life is tolerably active elsewhere...
...indoor tracks that was anything but slouchy. Last week Hoff bethought himself of Osborne's talk and called him out to meet him, at the Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan next month, in an all-round athletic duel. Sportdom awaited Teacher Osborne's reply, hoping much that the joust might be but realizing the obligations that are a pedagog...