Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett House, Straus Trophy winner last year and second place contender for inter-House honors this year, took a tumble yesterday when it got trampled on four different fronts.
It was not so in the old days. Interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter in September, 1940, a Miss Toni Sorel, contender for the title of Oomph Girl of the Nation, was quoted in the style considered appropriate for Radcliffe references in this wise: "Here I stood in Harvard Yard, lousy...
Chief rival to Ahmed is Ali, who has two formidable assets: he commands the Sana garrison and is close to the Imamate's treasury, in the cellar under Yahya's palace. Brother Abdullah, Yahya's roving ambassador to various foreign posts (now in London), is too remote...
Peck, at 31, has moved up into a secure place on the list of the nation's top ten box-office draws. He can count on 5,000 fan letters a week. He has been respectfully mentioned four times as a candidate for the Academy Award; his performance in...
The Louis fight met with a formidable contender for the center of attention last night when Freshman gymnasts in the north entry of Stoughton Hall broke the fourth floor sprinkler system, setting off the fire alarm.