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Word: vy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Culbertsons to novices, bridge players will vy for the privilege of representing Harvard in the Intercollegiate Bridge Tournament at New York with all expenses paid. The test will be held in the Lowell House Dining Room next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The winning pair will enter competition at the Ritz Carlton Hotel for the silver Challenge Cup and individual miniature replicas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE BRIDGE TOURNEY TO DECIDE NEW YORK ENTRANTS | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...Chamber was called to order, as custom provides, by its most aged member, M. Georges Lévy-Alphandéry, 78. While the Deputies listened to his quavering and cackling the seven Reds took their seats unobtrusively. When old Lévy-Alphandéry asked the Chamber to rise "in homage to the armed forces of France," three rose but four kept their seats. "Throw them out!" shouted the Deputies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seven Minus Four | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...have no authority to expel anyone," quavered old Lévy-Alphandéry. At that the Socialists, former allies of the Communists in the United Front-next to whom they sit at the Chamber's left-grabbed the four Reds who would not stand and tossed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seven Minus Four | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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