Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid taxes on it now for ten to twelve years. I became insolvent. I had to borrow money and to make notes which I have struggled to reduce, and which I did reduce and which some day I'll pay." Announcing that he would contest Senator Harrison's renomination in the August primaries "from hell to breakfast," Senator Bilbo declared, "I'm in the market for a colleague who will have some respect for me." The U. S. Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March...
...well had the late Maria Fletcher done, in fact, that last week her white half-sisters and white grandnieces were more than willing to acknowledge their mulatto kinfolk in order to win from the Illinois Appellate Court the right to contest the late Maria's will in the hope of cutting a black foster son out of the late Senator Turner's tidy fortune. Commenting on her family's privy past, Lucian's white Daughter Flavonia Fletcher Coffey cheerfully admitted: "Father was in a good many scrapes...
...contest with the Junior Varsity yesterday the Freshman withstood attacks of several Varsity substitutes imported especially for the game to earn an 11-11 draw...
...experience in speaking includes three years with the province town players. He was a Boylston Prize finalist, and gained a first place tie in the poetry reading contest in 1934. His writing career is comprised of a honors thesis and many stories in composition courses here. He is a concentrator in English...
Sanborn Vincent '38, of Brookline, won the Varsity tennis managerial contest which ended yesterday. Leonard H. Dowse '39 won the Freshman competition...