Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...game with the Pirates was the twenty-first they had won out of their last 24. Since August I, when no one thought them very likely to get the pennant, they had taken 43 out of 55, boosted their percentage more than 100 points. In the most exciting pennant contest in years, they had stood off the brilliant spurts of "Uncle" Wilbert Robinson's erratic Brooklyn players and the threat of the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs. Three days before their deciding victory over the Pirates they broke the season's record for base hits, getting...
...Last week men at the plant admitted that several workers have been dropped, that Charles Edison, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., no longer has a private secre- tary. And next month no less a person will leave the plant than Frank R. Schell, originator of the Edison scholarship contest. Supposed reason: Contest-Planner Schell is needed only once a year...
...Francisco she had sung it so badly that Opera directors there were accused of selling her the engagement. It was emphatically denied but criticism stayed bitter, and cinemactors were not surprised for Hope Hampton, not long ago, was just one of them. On the strength of a Texas beauty-contest prize she got her first job in Hollywood as an extra. She soon rose to stardom but the screen could not reveal her flaming orange hair (her one unique characteristic) and she had small success. Wiseacres fell into the way of calling her Hopeless Hampton but that was before...
After the dormitory series, the Freshmen will play games with other dormitory teams in an elimination contest for the dormitory championships...
...five University meets that have been scheduled. The season will start January 9, when the untried Crimson natators will meet Bowdoin. Other meets throughout the winter have been arranged with Army, Syracuse, and Yale, all meets to be held in Cambridge with the exception of the Army contest. For the Freshman team five meets have been scheduled. The first year swimmers will travel away from Cambridge to meet Andover, Exeter, and the Yale Freshmen, while contests with first year teams of Brown and Dartmouth will take place here...