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Word: vies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indoor and hand baseball will have teams in every House that will vie with one another for the House title just as during the regular spring schedules. Tennis will also be represented by teams and possibly with an informal tournament sometime during the summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRAMURALS ON YEAR-AROUND BASIS | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Komroff's Christ | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Varsity will face determined opposition from a well-balanced Army team that has led eastern play this season. Eleven other eastern squads will vie for top honors in the annual event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers To Duel In Eastern Meet | 3/20/1942 | See Source »

...least 35 contenders will vie for glory for themselves and their House in the annual inter-House boxing tournament which starts at 3:00 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 35 BOXERS TO COMPETE IN INTER-HOUSE MATCH | 2/17/1942 | See Source »

...moon-faced German Fritz Busch. This week the New Opera revives Verdi's Macbeth, seldom heard in the U.S. since 1850. Other revivals: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, whose lush melodies and story of a gambler's fate have pleased European but not U.S. audiences, and La Vie Parisienne -Offenbach's satire on the gaslit vulgarities of France's Second Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Opera, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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