Word: tying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going down to defeat, the Crimson lost its tie for the Eastern league title. Ed Ingalls pitched...
...Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee Roy an edge of 17 votes, which a third upped to 24. When Mr. Jenks claimed that 34 Jenks ballots cast in the town of Newton had been lost in counting, New Hampshire's Republican Secretary of State certificated...
...Tie-for-tie competitors for 36 years, the Century and Broadway, now alike in contour as a brace of eels, glided off this week on the Manhattan-Chicago run in what looked like another dead heat. Each was scheduled to make the run in 16 hours, a half-hour faster than before. This meant that Central's blue-streaked, silver Century must cover its 960 miles in 960 minutes, the gold-banded. Tuscan-red Broadway its 908 miles in the same time...
...field by a percentage margin with a record of seven wins and two losses with three games left to play. Dartmouth has won eight and lost three, and Saturday's game is her final contest. If Harvard can win the game, it is at least assured of a tie for the title, even if it should lose its remaining games with Yale...
...Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this...