Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote...
...Football enthusiasts of 1930, watching a game in (for instance) the Harvard Stadium may perhaps be distracted from the contest by the appearance, out of the sky, of a huge sausage-shaped bag moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over...
Such, briefly, are the features of the new Navy dirigible designed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Akron and awarded first prize ($50,000) in the Airship Competition Board's contest for the best dirigible design. The Board, headed by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, has recommended that the contract for constructing the ship be also given to the Goodyear company, and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has approved the recommendation. Should the Goodyear company build the ship, it cannot collect the $50,000 for the design, a stipulation of the contest being that if the company submitting...
...president of the International Advertising Association, had corrected the organization's finances from a deficit of more than $30,000 to a cash balance of $10,354.71 and had spent only $94,627.94 last year, the association elected him president for a third term, over the strong contest that Charles C. Younggreen of Milwaukee pretended to give him. Detroit will be the association's next meeting place...
...pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...