Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity stunt to lure tourists, Alberta's Social Credit government staged a "national dish" contest, offered $1,000 in prizes. Contest rules called for a dish "distinctive to Alberta" which could be served by restaurants for not more than $1. Six thousand plain and fancy recipes (including one from a wag who suggested "grilled gophers fried in Turner Valley oil with Alberta gas over a mountain range") swamped contest headquarters. Last week in Edmonton, the judges selected a plain-sounding winner...
...free hitting, heavy scoring contest, the Adams-Dunster baseball team handed a once-beaten Eliot nine a 15 to 5 trimming yesterday to go into a tie with the Deacons for the intramural league lead...
Unlike Monday's game, in which there were only five hits, yesterday's contest saw almost every man on each team collecting at least one safety. The fielding, too, was somewhat looser, although most of the aggregate runs of 20 were accounted for by well-tagged balls...
...Manhattan's Chinatown held a baby contest, chose a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, a cutest, a best-costumed entrant. But the prize for the "cryingest baby" went begging Not one of the button-eyed contestants would let out so much as a whimper...
Virginia, the only school to be played away from the Stadium except Yale, has set a $3.60 price on tickets for the Harvard contest, with season ticket holders getting the usual fifty percent reduction...