Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from 1936, but so lame was his position by this autumn, that he eagerly seized on the war as an issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
With a plea for a "sound health program in the public school," varsity Soccer Coach John F. Carr '29 speeded up his preparations yesterday for the heated Cambridge School Committee contest in the final election tomorrow...
...more entrants to the CRIMSON'S Gateway to Harvard contest signified competitive intentions at a late hour last night. The new starlets are Eileen Coleman of Brookline' and Rennic Smith of Revere...
Last night's additions bring the grand total of aspirants to 65. The judges of the contest, who have been examining the entries to get a line on the girls, refused to state any pre-contest preferences, but did say they had uncovered some "interesting details...
...John Selby - Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A picturesque, sentimental, occasionally tedious first novel which won the $1,000 prize money as U. S. entry in a cosmic contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition ($15,000). The author, 39, is a syndicate book reviewer for the Associated Press. The hero is a fat, rugged-individualist newspaper publisher, the background obviously Kansas City...