Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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At a casual glance, Vice President Richard Nixon seemed to be a man enviably in command of his own immediate political situation. He was the unchallenged contender for the Republican presidential nomination, with the blessing of the man he hopes to succeed in the White House. No doubtful primary elections...
By 1924 Smith was a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. Picked to make the speech nominating Smith at the 1924 convention, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had been the party's vice-presidential candidate in 1920, and was recovering from his polio attack, applied to him a tag...
¶ Obviously recovered from ankle trouble, Clifton S. Jones's colt Warfare, the 1959 two-year-old champion from California, easily won the $27,900 Swift Stakes at New York's Aqueduct to show that he is still the top contender for May's Kentucky Derby.
For the past year, we have supported this and opposed that, and measured out doses of censure and praise. Through all, and taken all in all, we have felt that Harvard College is just a little better than any other college, that the good works of President Pusey and his...
After wartime service in the Navy, Newell was hired to coach the University of San Francisco basketball team. He led the Dons to a National Invitation Tournament championship in 1949, quit in 1950 to go to Michigan State. In four years, Newell built the Spartans, long a door mat in...