Word: contesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapid switch of "facts" attested to by each side after the Supreme Court decision of June 10, 1916, indicates that the contest is not one between Right and Wrong, but merely a struggle between two greedy factions to exploit the law to the limit of their respective advantages. In order to exploit the Supreme Court's decision and at the same time avoid the pitfall. "The law cares not for small things," labor lawyers upped their sworn estimate of walking time from two to fifteen minutes...
...contest, first argument of the term for the Debate Council, was held in the Eliot House Junior Common Room...
Wally Sears, present high man on the Varsity scoring ladder after two more tallies last night, brought the battle right down to the final whistle with an unassisted goal in the final minute of play, and the contest ended with the puck in the vicinity of the B.A.A. cage...
...charter and the terms of the treaties with the beaten nations were the rules in the contest between Russia and the West, not the contest itself. That would be fought far from U.N.'s sober committee rooms. If anti-Communist Moslems and Hindus could not agree, Communism would gain in India (see FOREIGN NEWS). If the anti-Communist Chinese Government could get transportation going, Communism would be set back. If Communist parties and other projections of Moscow's will were able to hamstring non-Communist governments or to divide peoples, that would represent Russian gains just as surely...
Saragat, in refusing to join De Gasperi's Government, had decided to tackle the Communist position at its labor union roots. His group, planning to contest union elections during the next few months, did not want to be tagged as conservatives. The Communists saw the danger and fought him tooth & nail. Recently, when Alessandro Cappelletti, burly head of the Land Workers' Union, openly came out for Saragat, the Communists thew him bodily out of his office, later "legalizing" the act by also voting him out of office...