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Word: contestant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, from her Manhattan hotel suite, Arline announced that she would contest her husband's divorce. Bob, said Arline somewhat crossly, was using the Connecticut courts "as a tool to enable him to exchange one wife for another." Lana promptly backtracked. She could under no circumstances announce her engagement "to a man who is not free," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Musical Chairs | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

After Michigan scored its sixth touchdown, Coach Fritz Crisler sent his fancy first-stringers back into the game. This was no spare-the-enemy contest, or a save-yourself-for-next Saturday spirit; this was the season's end, and it was mayhem with a motive. So people thought Notre Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight-by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Case for Michigan | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Jayvee and freshman court operations will reopen today and tomorrow as Hal Kopp's charges take on a quintet from the Cambridge YMCA tonight at 8 o'clock on the indoor Athletic building floor while the Yardlings trek to Milton Academy tomorrow for a 2:30 o'clock contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JV, '51 Quintets Return to Court | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Three nationally-recognized pictorial photographers agreed last night to judge the 200 entries in the University photographic societies" color slide contest, taking place at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Union North Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationally Noted Photographers to Judge Slide Show | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

...clubs also announced plans for two more contests this year; on February 16 a black-and-white salon, and on May 3 the annual print-of-the-year and color slide contest. Both exhibitions will be open to the University, and the societies will offer prizes to the best undergraduate entries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationally Noted Photographers to Judge Slide Show | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

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