Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here the six younger classes involved in the day's revelry will be converging and will vie for liveliness of garb. Tradition calls for something with dash and curiosity, often a costume idea for a specific class repeated over the years. though equally often varied as the fancy of the prime movers of each group shifts...
Only honors candidates may compete. Applicants with the best speeches will vie in an oral trial early in April, and the final winners will then receive intensive grooming for their functions in the June 10 graduation...
Coach Henry Lamar declared that the tournament aroused the "greatest upsurge of undergraduate interest in boxing, since the war," and predicted even more excitement in the bout for all-University championships next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Forty-four men, several of whom boxed in the House matches, will vie for top honors in the tournament which includes the top boxers in all graduate schools...
Thirty embryonic politicians will vie for ten positions on the Class of 1951 Jubilee Committee today. The polls will be open in the Union and Dudley Hall from 12 to 2 o'clock and in the Union only between 5:15 and 7:15 o'clock...
Radiomen, who vie viciously with one another to decorate their Christmas programs with boughs of Hollywood, admit that they have all been outvied this season by a boyish Roman Catholic priest. The Rev. Patrick Peyton had under his Christmas tree two of radio's choicest sugarplums: his popular, weekly Family Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., Mutual), with a performance of Anatole France's Our Lady's Juggler, and a special, Peyton-inspired, star-studded dramatization of the Nativity, The Joyful Hour, aired last week...