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Word: contesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual high points of Yardling schedules is the traditional contest with Chief Boston's Jayvees. In 1947, this proved to be the first home game for Lamar's forces and one of their best, as they outplayed their rivals most of the way and led by one point in the final quarter before going down to defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Football Practice To Start Monday Afternoon | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...official prize in the Miss America contest was a $5,000 scholarship to any school of the winner's choosing. But there appeared to be little Ph.D. timber among the 54 entrants (representing 39 states, 14 cities and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Strutters | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...first-rate example of the kind of detailed, human, revealing reporting that TIME tries for. There in miniature at Fiumicino, in a controversy over who should get credit for repairing the town's war-stopped clock, was, as TIME said, "the bitter struggle that rends all Italy"-a contest between Marxists and non-Marxists for sole credit for every act that benefits the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 8, 1947 | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...bulletproof Mercédès-Benz limousine billed as "Hitler's Car." Then they trudged on to look at the latest developments in trains and television. They walked for miles-from a well-advertised Art Gallery nude to the Men's Tea-Making Contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: The Ex | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Continued Balmy | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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