Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following individual triumphs were notable either for the contest or the personality involved...
Fortunately for the peace of mind of George V, these evolutionary if not revolutionary sentiments do not yet represent the overt policy of Sir Richard Squires, victor in last week's contest. This quiet, sharp-featured businessman affects collars with rounded ("Hoover") points, spectacles, and a reassuring air of being no revolutionary...
...some far province like the Philippines. Since colonial days the title Governor has waned in glamour, but waxed in its direct power over the lives of U. S. citizens. This year, 35 States chose Governors-Maine last September and 34 States last week. In every State, where a real contest existed, citizens awaited for gubernatorial results with less emotion than for presidential, but with scarcely less concern. For politicians, gubernatorial results were almost as important as presidential because of the local patronage at stake...
Long and expensive ($300,000) was the contest in the courts. Alone, Inventor Carson could not have financed it. But to his aid came many a friendly Westerner. Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco sugar and gas tycoon, organized the Carson Investment Co. to fight the Desert Rat's battle. And in February, 1925, Tycoon Spreckels went down to the waterfront boardinghouse to tell the Desert Rat he was worth $5,000,000, perhaps $20,000,000. He became a national celebrity over night. Hundreds of newspapers carried his story; hundreds of women found matrimony desirable...
What is taken as convincing evidence that the second eleven will start the contest is the fact that they were drilled yesterday against an attack which uses the buddle as Lehigh does. The scrubs were putting on all sorts of balanced and unbalanced formations which are associated with the huddle system in a defensive dummy scrimmage which formed the main part of the workout...