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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They must justify their stand, or confess ignorance of what's been going on," he said last night. "If they do the latter, I'll ask them to withdraw gracefully from the contest. As a matter of fact, I expect either to be completely ignored or subjected to a bitter personal attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophmore Runs for Brookline School Committee; Calls Members 'Stooges' | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

With one of their toughest matches in front of them, the wrestlers have to go their hardest in the opening contest of the season. In the Indoor Athletic Building, tomorrow, at three o'clock they face the Tigers...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: GRAPPLERS OPPOSE PRINCETON IN OPENER | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Tudor Gardiner has only wrestled a single bout for the varsity and that was in the Brown contest last year. His opponent, Karkless, is slightly favored, and many claim that he is as good as Smith who was defeated by Harkness last year...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: GRAPPLERS OPPOSE PRINCETON IN OPENER | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

...under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan's Avery Hopwood Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Wife | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Word comes from the inner sanctum of the Boston Evening American that Phillip J. Rulon, assistant professor of Education, has accepted the invitation to Miss Ann Marsters to be one of three judges in the Cosmopolitan contest for a girl to represent Massachusetts at the World's Fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN GETS PROFESSOR TO JUDGE "PERSONALITY" GIRLS | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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