Word: contesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshmen routed Lexington High in an exhibition contest yesterday afternoon...
...eight years with fictitious employees and pocketed most of their salaries for himself. On the third day of his trial for fraud, as some of Congressman Thomas' non-working "employees" prepared to testify against him, he surrendered. He withdrew his plea of not guilty and entered a no-contest plea to four charges of conspiracy and fraud. Liable to as much as 32 years in prison and fines totalling $40,000, Parnell Thomas hoped for mercy-a quality he had never shown in his ruthless badgering of witnesses in the days when he presided over the House Un-American...
Scheduled to arrive at Northampton for a 9.30 a.m. breakfast and a "spot-landing" contest with Smith, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, and Dartmouth, 13 members of the Harvard Flying Club left Bedford Airport at 8 a.m. Bad weather forced them to return...
Breakfast at Smith College and a "spot landing" contest with the flying clubs of Smith, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, and Dartmouth is on the Sunday program of the Harvard Flying Club this weekend. Five planes will convey thirteen Harvard aviators to the affair...
After breakfasting at Smith, the flyers will return to the airport to man their planes in a "spot landing" contest. A pair of argyle seeks knitted by one of the members of the Smith Flying Club will be awarded the winner...