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Word: contest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abominable. In Raleigh, N.C., News and Observer Columnist Charles Craven discussed a city recreation department snowman contest, said there would be "two divisions-one for white children and one for colored," but "the snow men in both divisions will be white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Moving through Missouri, Iowa, Kansas and Arizona, Johnson showed an uncanny understanding of his audiences. At a Drake University student Democratic club rally, he sensed the let-out partisanship of his listeners, proceeded to wow them with a wry reference to the Nixon-Rockefeller contest: "The Republicans apparently believe that two's a crowd. They'll give us a choice of a vote for Checkers or a vote for a checkbook." But before a serious, nonpartisan service club luncheon in Des Moines, he picked a careful, solemn path. "I live by the rule that I am first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Pro | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Muscle. In Louisville, Robeit Snawder filed suit for $45,248 damages, claimed that a back injury from an auto accident kept him from competing in the "Mr. America" contest and winning the crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...years since Congress passed the Sherman Act. no reputable businessmen have served a jail term for antitrust violations and none after pleading nolo contendere (no contest)-until last month. Then Federal Judge Mell G. Underwood, 67, of Columbus, Ohio set a precedent. He ordered four officials of hand implement manufacturing companies to serve 90 days in the federal penitentiary at Milan, Mich. On the way to surrender, Defendant John T. Mains, 56, former mayor of Greenfield, Ohio, put a bullet through his head. Last week Judge Underwood rejected a plea to commute the remainder of the terms of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Mercy of the Court | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Professors Elliott and Leach have presented a most interesting approach to the honorary degree problem and one that may well be applied to other vexatious question. When, for example, Radcliffe put an end to the CRIMSON's Miss Radcliffe contest, the editors might have instituted an annual competition among noted beauties of the past. The Williams professor and I may disagree on who immortalized the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, but we would, I am sure, agree that disputation about her beauty would have been more becoming than was the Kampus Kutle Kontest that agitated Plympton St. last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

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