Word: contest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credible the overexcited story of a woman whose principles and weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through its unrealities, Gloria Swanson is handsome, restrained, adroit, in good voice. Best...
...information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes in a safe airplane contest, $150,000. To the Government of Chile also went $500,000, to develop aviation, a gift from Daniel Guggenheim apart from his gifts to the Fund...
...Hallowell '32 was the first to break the tape in the University race, finishing in 28 minutes, 2-5 seconds. R. P. Wesley '33 won the first year contest, returning in 17 minutes, 39 seconds. The University team scored a 19 to 52 win, while the 1933 runners were defeating their opponents by a perfect count...
...galore within walking distance. Every weekend some one of the important fraternities gives a party; during the football season, there are innumerable social functions which may be more aptly described as brawls. For the games the fraternity houses decorate their buildings in every way imaginable: today there is a contest between the fraternities to see which can put up the gayest decorations. There are to be slices of yellow and blue; there are to be slices of brilliant crimson: and there are to be huge "M's" and "H's" amidst the galaxy of color. The whole town...
Speakers for the debate with the New Jersey Law School to Newark tonight were announced yesterday by E. E. Rowe 1L, coach of the University debating team. At the same time debaters for the Harvard-Radcliffe contest on Monday, November 18, were announced...