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BV JAMES J. KILPATRICK
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The time is at hand—and a pleasant time it is—to announce winners in the Great Simile Contest of 1994.
In Section One, we sought similes for something having to do with solidity. The $100 prize goes to W.F. Roberts of Otego, N.Y., who wrote of a woman “whose pie crusts were like plaster casts.”
In Section Two, we invited similes for something having to do with laughter. A $100 prize goes to Arthur R. Miller of Akron, N.Y., who imagined a happy woman: “If her laugh could fill a glass you would call it champagne.”
Section Three was for elementary and middle schools. The $100 prize goes to Mrs. Marie Franckowiak’s seventh-grade English class at Kenmore Middle School in Kenmore, N.Y. Section Four was for high schools. In a close contest for the $100, Stephanie Stewart’s sophomore class in English at Amelia High School, Batavia, Ohio, edged out Texas Military Institute in San Antonio.
The 1994 contest attracted roughly 4,300 nonstudent partici-. pants who submitted two similes each. We had class entries from 282 schools with 8,070 student participants. Similes? I looked at 16,700 of them.
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