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Word: contests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field made soft by morning rains which for a time threatened to cause postponement, slowed play somewhat, but the contest was one of the closest seen in college ranks this season The score was knotted at five different times during the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Defeats Army to Enter Final of Collegiates | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Seven Colleges will send representatives to the Eastern Intercollegiate Airmeet at Hampton Airport, Long Island, this Saturday and Sunday to compete for 15 awards and trophies given to leading contestants. This meet is a postponement of the contest of May 14 which met with adverse conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN SCHOOLS TO VIE IN AIR MEET AT HAMPTON FIELD | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

...identification of landmarks. The paper strafing events which was the only one that was finished on the former date will stand as completed, announced Keith Davis '38, former president of the Harvard Flying Club and now Chairman of the N. E. I. F. C. which is sponsoring the contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN SCHOOLS TO VIE IN AIR MEET AT HAMPTON FIELD | 6/10/1938 | See Source »

Aspiring to contest the Senate seat of Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette, Otha Wearin was encouraged when that handsome statesman fell into bad repute with the White House by voting against the President's Supreme Court bill last year. He was further encouraged by certain Administration lieutenants who believed that if they could get a Wearin nominated for the Senate in so pivotal a State as Iowa, it would put the fear of F. D. R. into Democratic Senators even more recalcitrant than Gillette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pumps & Polls | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Significance. To Washington observers who regarded the investigation as a contest between a high-minded oldster (Arthur Morgan), able but unstable, and a purposeful man (David Lilienthal), not too squeamish about the means necessary to promote public ownership in which he heartily believes, shrewd Mr. Lilienthal would have the better of it. Save as a political incident, the investigation appeared important only as it might publicize some lesser known facts about the Government's "widest experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Morgan, Morgan & Lilienthal | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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