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Word: contesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Evans began giving away the monthly Family Circle, which now goes to 1,477,000 housewives over the counters of five important grocery chains. Last week the 15,000 stores of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. became newsstands for an even more pretentious giveaway. From 215,000 contest entries A. & P. paid two women each $1,000 for the title Woman's Day. Mrs. Haydie Yates, who once ran a western dude ranch and became managing editor of Today and New York Woman in rapid succession, was selected to serve up a magazine of household utility, designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A. & P.'s Day | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Coates or any other Alabaman thought he could shame torrid Tom Heflin he did not know old Tom. Not only did Tom Heflin contest the election; he fought it all the way back to the U. S. Senate; he buttonholed his ex-colleagues until they granted him extraordinary permission to state his case on the floor of the Senate, which he did for 5½ purple hours- in vain. In 1934 he swallowed his pride, ran for Congressman from the Fifth Alabama District, the comparatively lowly job he had held for eight and a half terms (1904-21) before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Tom-Tom Tom | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Harrow, Ont., at the annual Dominion egg-laying contest, George A. Winton's hen suddenly stopped laying, began growing wattles and a comb, before the contest was over had turned into a rooster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Of Mice and Men), have become standard magazine features.' Most impressive official blessing on the novelette was pronounced last week when Publishers Little, Brown offered the winner and four runners-up, culled from 1,340 contestants, in their $2,500 Novelette Contest. Although readers found no second Goodbye, Mr. Chips among them, most agreed that the venture paid reading dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Novelette Finalists | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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