Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...
...Ranier, Washington, prides itself on both open slopes and trails, and is the annual scene of the Silver Skis race, second only to Mt. Washington's Grand Inferno race in length. Mt. Baker, north-west of Ranier, will vie for Washington's First Mountain when its development, now underway, is completed...
...girl by the hand; she in turn wac clasping the hand of a chubby infant. All three of them were depicted as standing in the middle of a field of corn, smiling brightly. At the foot of the poster, in great black letters, it said: "Paysans! Paysannes! Pour une vie phis riche-votes Communiste" (Men & women of the farms! For a richer life-vote Communist...
Vachel Lindsay was writing about his home town. For him, Springfield was more than the prosy, prosperous seat of Illinois' State Fair; he saw it as a cultural capital of the future, where art would some day vie with corn, hogs and cattle for attention. The hopeful poet, who died in 1931, might well have been pleased by this year's state fair. Last week, for the first time in Illinois history, fine art was among the exhibits...
Usually grim Union surroundings will undergo a transformation Friday evening when six models, a band unit, and an emcee will choose at random 60 Jubilee ticket holders who will vie with each other for a prize dance with the models at the May 10 Union formal...