Word: contested
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...registered Harvard undergraduate student may enter by writing to the League of Nations Association, Inc., 6 East 39th Street, New York City and asking for a registration blank, which is to be filled out and returned. The contest will close on March 2, the last date on which all theses may be mailed...
Conditions of the contest state that a bibliography listing all material used must accompany each thesis and the lists of League of Nation documents, pamphlets and selected books will be sent on receipt of the registration blank. As for length, 3,000 words are suggested as a minimum and 5,000 as a maximum, but these limits are not arbitrary. Other conditions will be included with the registration blank...
Arranger of the game was neither Secretary of War nor Secretary of the Navy, each of whom had failed on several occasions to bring about a reconciliation between the stubborn military Mule and the hard-headed nautical Goat. The contest was first seriously proposed by long-legged Sports Editor Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News (TIME, Nov. 17). And the man who finally turned the trick was New York's official greeter and one-time police commissioner, Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen who, having joined the Salvation Army's relief committee, tried to get Secretaries Hurley...
...contest, of which this was the seventh annual repetition, was sponsored by the Standard Farm Papers and the farm press of Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas. But whereas the best prizefighter in the U. S. can make a million dollars a year, the best cornhusker in the U. S. gets only $100 over and above wages, plus a reputation around home for being an extra good farm hand...
...Delta, Colo., George Bonus won a cow at a theatre contest. Next day the cow calved...