Word: contestable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those games, evidently, was the Harvard contest at Cambridge. Leading 3-0 after only 23 minutes of play. Dartmouth collapsed badly. yielding four third-period goals before losing 6-3. It was a damaging psychological blow to a Green squad that had for two periods, thought it was finally going somewhere...
...exciting, well played game between two of the best freshman teams in the East, St. John's edged the Crimson. 96-94. before the varsity contest...
...tonight's contest pretty much boils down to a mismatch between a squad that will most likely be fighting for the ECAC title and one that will have to struggle to keep above water. The only way that Nortbeastern can win is if Harvard allows it to. It has happened before, but don't bet on its happening tonight...
...adolescent Raquel could have borne a touch of humility. A high Latin ridge gave her nose an unattractive hook; she was affectionately known around school as "Birdlegs." Then she began to grow in all directions, and soon became an established figure on the beauty contest circuit. She won her first local contest at 15; later she was named Miss La Jolla, Miss San Diego, and finally Maid of California. Says Don Diego, who ran another contest she captured called the Fairest of the Fair Festival: "There were prettier girls around, but none had her figure or her drive. Most girls...
Enter Patrick Curtis, a Hollywood product if there ever was one. At age two he won the Adohre Milk Company's Adohreable Baby Contest, a ringing triumph that earned him the role of Olivia de Havilland's baby in Gone With the Wind. He later played Ma and Pa Kettle's ninth kid, changed his name from Smith to Curtis (after his boyhood hero, Tony). When he was 13 he landed the TV role of Buzz in Leave It to Beaver; his eternally boyish face and buck teeth allowed him to keep the part for six years. Patrick wanted...