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Word: contesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mostly they heard of Fritz Kuhn's love letters and Fritz Kuhn's search for sympathy. Pretty, brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Virginia Overshiner Patterson Stark Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell, "The Georgia Peach," 32 years old, seven times wed, winner of an Atlantic City beauty contest, was one from whom Fritz Kuhn sought sympathy. But next came honey-haired, plump Mrs. Florence Camp, and the climax of Fritz Kuhn's courtroom distress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Miss Helen Schuman is also included among the leading members of the cast, playing Jill, a simple Philadelphia girl. She is a past winner of the Massachusetts State Dramatic contest for her role in "Noblesse Oblige," and is at present studying dramatics at the Bishop Lee School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST CHOSEN FOR DRAMATIC CLUB'S NEW PRODUCTION | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS SHINE IN ZERO HEREFORD RHUMBA CONTEST | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...contest waxed hot, it became obvious that Lerner and Ayer had something that the others in the contest didn't have. The decision was a unanimous victory for Harvard. The prize of a bottle of champagne to each winner was awarded amidst great cheers of anticipation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS SHINE IN ZERO HEREFORD RHUMBA CONTEST | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

Sixty-four years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handle-bar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Gridiron Battle Has Appeal to Outsiders And Alumni Alike Who Jammed Soldiers Field Stadium | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

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