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Word: contesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test in its April 18 elections. Wherever the Communists took power by election, they made sure, as in Poland, that they would never lose it by election. And when they lost elections, as in Czechoslovakia, they sought other roads to power. The democracies had to win every kind of contest every time in every country. The Communists only had to win once; then the country was withdrawn from contest, and could be liberated only by revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chances of World War III | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Yale and Harvard hockey teams, their home-and-home series tied, will meet in a third contest at the New Haven Arena Wednesday, it was announced last night by the Yale Athletic Association...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Skaters Weave Silver Lining into Blue Cloud | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

With Kuhn's check signed and delivered, and this current issue on the stands. Signature's editors announced a new contest today for undergraduate poets and dangled a $10 prize bait for the verse contest is March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kuhn Wins Signature Prize for Best Story | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Judges of the prose contest included English Department savants Herschel C. Baker and Kenueth P. Kempton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kuhn Wins Signature Prize for Best Story | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

Prizes for the election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Orators Selected for Boylston Speaking Contest | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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