Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honor, the mayor of Boston. The passage of this "Act to establish a board of Commissioners of school buildings and a department of school buildings in the City of Boston" has received strong support from educators in the vicinity, but the opponents of the referendum predict a close contest...
...Wallaces" (The Three Just Men, 139 others), race horse owner, tipster, playwright (The Sign of the Leopard), arrived in Manhattan, thought that he might gather U. S. criminal material for another "Wallace." Said he: "The speediest work I ever turned out was a book I wrote in a prize contest seven years ago. I started it on a Thursday and finished it on Monday. Its title? I forget. I think it was called the 'Countess Something.' " With him was his wife who told him that the name of the book was The Strange Countess...
Municipal politics have in Boston descended abruptly from anything like the dignity usually connected with the highest office in a city. From a comparatively cool discussion of issues, the campaign has been altered to a furious contest of mud-slinging, in which party, racial, and religious lines are erased, and the struggle is one of individual hatreds. To any one raised in the usual American atmosphere of optimistic trust that a democracy chooses the best men for its offices, there is a terrific shock in the spectacle now being played in Boston. One candidate remarks "The people of Boston have...
Only five men from the Harvard squad ran in the contest. C. B. Davis '31 was the first Crimson man to finish, arriving in eighteenth position. J. P. Duane '32 came in twenty-first place; C. B. Currier '32 was number 24; P. S. Dalton, Jr. '31, 33; and G. H. Foley '32 placed thirty-fifth...
Apparently those who live in glass houses, not content with a mere throwing of stones, have entered into a somewhat ragged game of catch with the big leagues. It is too early to predict the outcome of the contest, but the constant mention of money adds a taint of professionalism to the proceedings which cannot fall to arouse regret in the ranks of the amateur garden clubs involved. So far the hothouse gang seems to have the edge but the experts are talking knowingly about the dark horse pitcher held in reserve by the big league...