Word: contested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Shah had set off for a ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation...
Four Cambridge City Councillors-elect have assured Edward A. Crane '35 of election as mayor by pledging him their support in the January mayoralty contest, it was revealed yesterday. Cambridge's mayor is chosen by the City Council from among; its nine members...
...leagues will play through the first week of March, when the winners of each league contest will play each other. The Athletic Committee will award medals to the winning team and a special medal to the high-point scorer for the season...
Last year, Mathews South, Hollis, and Thayer North took first, second, and third places in the basketball contest. Hollis, Mathews South, and Thayer Middle were tops in the year's point totals...
...international contest at which their excellencies assisted was a sparkling new feature of Peru's annual Feria Nacional, which included such other attractions as bullfights and a country fair...