Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the Alsops: "The struggle of real significance to the country is not the contest between Dewey and Truman. It is the inevitable post-election battle between Dewey and his party's Old Guard...
Example. In Hatfield Peverel, England, the Rev. Brian Mahood judged a women's ankle-beauty contest, then took off his socks and won the prize for the shapeliest male ankles...
...Reporter Tom Buchanan, who had been fired by the Washington Star because he was a Communist (TIME, June 28). Last week the local, in effect, told the A.N.G. to mind its own business. By a 2-to-1 vote, the Washington Guildsmen decided for the second time not to contest Buchanan's firing...
...told, the booming plastics industry served up some 7,000 items for the contest, from 1,300 manufacturers. This was impressive evidence of how the industry has grown. In the first competition in 1936, there were only a few hundred entries made of four different plastics; this year there were 13 plastics, many of them developed since the war began...
...just eloped with a man who was seen coming out of a Henry Wallace rally . . . and he has had an automobile accident that has broken his back, fractured his skull and crushed both legs-is still able to crawl to the microphone and help the announcer explain the big contest and where you mail the box tops...