Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
When your golf club has a swatfest, father & son tournament or other unique contest with a handsome goblet as prize, the chances are that it has been instigated by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, commonly called the PGA. Founded in 1916 by several eastern professionals, PGA is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote golf and thereby professional golfers, who are one of the most underpaid groups of crack athletes in the world. PGA conducts tournaments, offers free teaching in colleges, free advice to clubs, free architects to the Government or anyone else who wants...
Last week Eastchester's Zoning Board of Appeals ordered Dr. Shapera to get Iron Mike off his lawn and out of sight. The veterinarian flatly refused. Town Counsel William Olsen threatened to seek an injunction, whereupon Dr. Shapers hired lawyers to contest the action. Iron Mike, his tongue hanging out, his coat of paint scrubbed carefully by Dr. Shapera's housekeeper, continued to gaze benignly at genteel Eastchester...
However, I have always imagined a contest with a shark as not so much a tug of war, as a free-for-all catch-as-catch-can, with no holds barred. And while we humans may have the ability to outpull a shark, the soft, creamy foods we eat have resulted in our being somewhat less than a match for him, dentally...
...news to Cally, she came out to nurse him. She fixed it for him to have a job in maintenance, where he could stay put and raise a family. Once more Slim thought he'd go with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally and the job of being a lineman came in the power-house yard on a snowy night, with the ends of hot wire, broken by the cold and the weight of ice on them, flapping in the wind till the high voltage lines nearby, on which they...