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Word: vies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now the ladies are preparing to welcome the Yard-and-Houselings at a dance which will vie with the Yale game next Saturday. They confidently expect a big turnout, despite the game. "We always do pretty well," one is reported to have said. Lucky Freshmen will go out on the 7:30 train, be carried back by special...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Scoffs at Yale in Attempt to Lure Freshmen | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Vie Bohème. In Manhattan, Carl Leila patiently explained his wife's condition to police: "I am an artist. I am very temperamental. During the discussion over our matrimonial problems, I became emotionally unstrung. I bit off the tip of her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...early art training in Indianapolis and at the Chicago Art Institute, was later one of the first winners of the Harmon Foundation's awards for Negro artists. With his award money ($100) he bought a one-way ticket to Paris, eked out four years of vie de Bohème on $750, a handout of the late Otto H. Kahn. Artist Woodruff returned to the U.S. in 1931 to take his post as art instructor at Atlanta, has remained there ever since. In 1936 he spent a summer studying mural painting in Mexico with Diego Rivera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Beaux-Arts | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Lowell retains its long lead over the other Houses in the amount pledged and collected last week, with total sales there amounting to $129 and pledges to $85. Winthrop rose from near the bottom in the middle of last week to vie with Adams and Leverett for second place in the amount pledged, and in the total amount sold for the week Winthrop was about $10 ahead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pledge Drive Wins Support of Only Fraction of Student Body | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Francisco, where Hearst headlines every evening vie with Scripps-Howard's, Murder and War competed for readers' attention one evening last fortnight. Late editions of Hearst's Call-Bulletin bannered in two-inch letters across the top of Page One: U.S. NAVY GIVES 15T FULL STORY OF ALASKA BATTLE. Across the top of Page One Scripps-Howard's News played: RED CARNATION MURDER! Under the News's headline was a picture of a comely blonde college coed who had been shot to death in a motorists' cabin by a lover who left a bunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Murder v. War | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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