Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first team contest should give Jim Wood's men a fairly good idea of what to expect from Yale next Friday, inasmuch as the Elis have played and beaten the Gymnasts 2-1 already this year. Observers feel that the Crimson is approaching its best form and that a victory today will provide the boost necessary to meet Yale...
Queen Noino Sirs: In regard to your news item on Onions, TIME, Oct. 26, p. 84, please be advised that the "possibilities of a contest for the unsavory [very unAmerican! ] job of being U. S. 'Onion Queen' " has been explored by the Farmersville Junior Chamber of Commerce, Inc. through its staging of an annual onion festival...
Next to our native land, Japan seems to have the wheels spinning in a more orderly manner than eleswhere. No vulgar civil wars disturb the little yellow men, one of whom has just won a contest by raising a beard five inches longer than he is, far surpassing both of the Smith Brothers. This remarkable personification of Japanese resource carries his growth in a handbag when he goes walking, so as not to sully the end. So far from being confused, he seems to have a very highly developed philosophy of life. And with a beard like that, he must...
...other hand, if the puritans beat Kirkland, and then either win or the their final contest against the strong Elephants, they will once again walk off with the House football title...
...Washington last week $10,000, furnished by Eastman Kodak Co., was distributed among finalists in the second annual Newspaper National Snapshot Awards. This is a contest for amateur photographers who have already won prizes in preliminary newspaper contests. Judges of preliminary contests pored over more than 500,000 photographs, few of which were so hastily executed as to merit the name of "snapshots," before the 368 finalists were hung on the walls of the National Geographic Society's Hall of Explorers...