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Word: contesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop and Dormitory sextets battled it out last night to a 2 to 2 tie, climaxing the third series of inter-House hockey matches at the Boston Skating Club rink in Brighton. This was the last House athletic contest of any kind this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTHROP, DORMITORY TIE IN HOUSE HOCKEY | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...their first obstacle tonight-and it will be a formidable one-when they encounter a star-studded Alumni aggregation featuring two former Crimson captains, Charles G. Hutter '38 and E. Russell Greenhood '39. The Varsity meet, starting at 8:30 o'clock will be preceded by the Freshmen's contest with the M.I.T. Freshmen...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Untried Varsity Swimmers Face Crack Alumni Mermen in Pool Meet Tonight | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...quantity on his Varsity swimming squad--the group of 15 Sophomores who constitute a large part of the squad's reserve element, and who, in some cases, will be holding down first-rate positions in the line-up. The occasion will be the annual Alumni vs. Varsity meet, a contest always fraught with thrills...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...first intercollegiate, contest of the season, the Harvard squash team defeated Dartmouth 7 to 2 in the Hemenway Gymnasium courts last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squashmen Beat Dartmouth | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last Friday night Scott Township's farmers & wives dressed in their Sunday best, drove in to Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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