Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampshire, Republican Arthur B. Jenks won nomination to contest once more against Democrat Alphonse Roy, whom the House seated in Mr. Jenks's stead last June after the latter had served all but six days of the 75th Congress (TIME, June 20). To contest against New Deal Senator Fred H. Brown, Republicans nominated Representative Charles W. Tobey, Townsend Planner...
Potato Picking Contest (Wed. 2:15 p.m., MBS). Maine's Governor Lewis O. Barrows, Idaho's Governor Barzilla W. Clark pick up freshly-dug potatoes. Tuber-by-tuber account from Fort Fairfield...
...International Cosmopolitan (circulation: 1,850,000), with an added plug for important Druggist customers like Absorbine, Jr. Fletcher's Castoria, Seiberling's Dry-wear Latex Baby Pants. Only cost to them will be $10 worth of products a month as prizes in a window-display contest. Text is being prepared free by eight leading advertising agencies. "Cooper-ating" editorials will be released each month in 20 Hearst daily newspapers (combined circulation...
...first Scottish Games became an annual event, and with the passing of the years Scots from far beyond New Jersey's glens came to witness them, and such famed pipers as the late Angus MacMillan Fraser squealed and skirled for prizes in Holmdel's pipe contest...
Last week Holmdel attracted some 6,000 clansmen dressed in kilts and plaids. Main event of the day, as usual, was the piping contest. Contestants were judged on points, 100 being regarded as a perfect score. Twenty-five of the hundred points were allowed for time, 25 for tone, 50 for execution (the technique of trills and capers with which every good piper decks out the tune he is playing). If a piper missed a melodic trick, or if he allowed his reed to "choke" (stop vibrating for lack of air), he was docked a point...