Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing gratification...
...rolled around town in a chauffeur-driven car. He liked to peel off $100 bills from a fat roll to pay for a haircut, wowed Edwardsville's drugstore cowboys by flashing $1,000 bills. He staked the town's bowling team to a trip to a Detroit tournament. He bought a duck hunters' show place in Arkansas, dropped $85,000 in a Wyoming land deal, plunged in Illinois oil, imported Hollywood cuties for a Cheyenne businessman's party...
...Varsity is also booked to compete in the annual Missouri Valley Tournament at Kansas City during the Christmas vacation period...
...Brown; 8, Northeastern; 11, at Navy 14, Dartmouth at Boston Garden; 16, at Trinity; 21, Boston College at Boston Garden; 27-30, Missouri Valley Tournament at Kansas City...
...Little Rose Bowl" tournament at season's end between the two top teams in each. House conference would decide the ultimate champion. The victor then would take his chances in the traditional clash against Yale's top college squad...