Word: contest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place to live in. But I am sending you a picture of one of our Indian girls who is beautiful just as she is-with just a little help from the beauty industry. Her name is Madonna Blue Horse [see cut]. She is the 1958 winner of the "Marylike Contest" sponsored by the Holy Rosary Mission of Pine Ridge, S. Dak., the largest Indian mission in our country...
...though these problems affected the balance of power between Russia and the U.S., they all predated the cold war, which was not even a dominant issue in the eyes of the people most concerned. In each case, today's rioters and peacemakers were the heirs of a contest of over 2,000 years for the possession of every fought-over foot of the Mediterranean littoral. Items...
...charged in a divorce suit that during the single month they lived together before she left him, Leland had threatened her life, had quit his job at the ironworks and said that if she didn't support him, he would find somebody else who would. He did not contest the suit...
...spring of 1931 a sophomore named Harry Levin won first place in the Bowdoin Prize Contest for his essay entitled "The Broken Column." The following fall, Levin's essay, along with three other theses, were published by the Harvard University Press under a grant by Herbert Nathan Straus...
...bought the newest U.S. equipment and made it pay off with efficient, low-cost operation. To win passengers, Qantas specialized in light, bright ads, once kicked off a plane-naming contest with "Be the first one in your block to win a kangaroo." To keep its customers, it laid on goodies (including exotic fruits, Sydney rock oysters, giant Australian prawns). And to make them pay off, it kept costs firmly tied to the runway. One big advantage is relatively low pay scales ($7,000 for a Connie captain v. $21,000 in the U.S.). Another is crack maintenance that cuts...