Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME errs again. Consult any Newport paper and you will find that John JaCob Astor is far from the top in the contest for handsomest man in the still-incomplete voting of the Hospital Fair (TIME, July 20). ANNE C. BARKER...
Officially, no country wins the Olympic Games. Patterned on their Greek models, each event is an individual contest of which the winner is an individual or a specialized team. Any effort to rate Olympic performances in national units raises questions of procedure such as whether the sport of Running, backbone of the Olympics, with 14 major subdivisions, should be given the same importance as the sport of Canoeing...
...intimate glimpse of high & low life in Hollywood. While the cinema colony shamefully hung its tail between its legs, while circulation managers of the tabloid Press howled with delight, Mary Astor and Dr. Franklyn Thorpe battled for the custody of their 4-year-old daughter in a mud-slinging contest in which the purpose of each was to make the other appear grossly immoral...
...potent opinion-makers in any election year. Although the 1936 Presidential campaign officially got under way only last week, U. S. men of God were already assuming their roles in it. Editorialized The Christian Evangelist, organ of the Disciples of Christ: "We do not recall any other recent Presidential contest in which the Ins and the Outs tried so vigorously to capture for their respective parties the sanctions and blessings of organized religion...
...Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing else was wanting to add the last touch of dignity to one side of the contest and to remove the last traces of it upon the other...