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Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final warmup for Saturday's Yale contest, the freshman lacrosse team takes on Middlesex at 3:45 p.m. today on the Business School Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Battles Middlesex In Lacrosse Contest | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

Thursday will see the opening contest of the Hickeys vs. Carduffs intra-squad series which was postponed last week. The second game will be played Monday, and the third game, if necessary, on Wednesday or Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Webb Starts for '52 Nine Against Leicester Today | 5/18/1949 | See Source »

...Eliots were so strong in the rowing department that they decided to enter a second team in the preliminary contest, and it too won its way to the finals. It won't, however, be able to garner any Straus Trophy Points for Eliot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacon Nine Downs Eliot; Adams Vanquishes Dudley | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...bombers. They will probably ride a movable radar beam kept trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tactics Up in the Air | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest, and Mom promptly went to work on his career as if it were a sacred mission. As he grew, his age could be reckoned by his billing: "The Shimmy Kid," "The Child Wonder," "The Wayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Child Wonder | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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