Word: contestant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first year that the band has taken two trips. The organization will journey to both Princeton and Dartmouth. Set against this factor, Howard said that this is also the first year in which the band has had only two weeks to prepare for their first game -- the Connecticut contest being only two weeks...
China, racked by civil war, inflation and famine, took time out to honor an old U.S. custom-the beauty contest.* In Shanghai, Miss Wong Yung-mai, striking a traditional pose, was chosen Miss Shanghai 1946, in a contest staged to raise funds for famine relief. Contestants were selected for personality rather than physical charm. Bathing suits were ruled...
...news of the No. 1 U.S. contest, see PEOPLE...
...which was to demand immediate economic unification of Germany, and to announce that the United States would make a start by uniting its zone of occupation with any or all of their zones. By this statement, Byrnes in effect invited the British to join with us in the great contest for Germany which has now been initiated...
...that the commissars approve-Russian folk-songs in bouncy dance time-Eddy has the admiration of Stalin himself. But sometimes he remembers the days of his youth when he visited the U.S., studied the jazz ways of Harlem, placed second to Louis Armstrong in an international hot trumpeters' contest in 1934. Then Eddy lets himself go, cuts out on St. Louis Blues, Choo Choo or Alexander's Ragtime Band...