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"Contestant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such newspapers were to be paid five dollars by the landholder for each final proof published, and any contestant to a settler's right to the land must pay a publication fee. Thereby a new enterprise was ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl
... neighborhood. The Settlement strives for that type of gymnastics which is at least partly a matter of character, for that training which presupposes abstinence and the curbing of impulse, as well as for those athletic contests in which the mind of the contestant must be vigilant to keep the body closely to the rules of the game. As one sees in rhythmic motion the slim bodies of a class of lads, "that scrupulous and uncontaminate purity of form which recommended itself even to the Greeks as befitting messengers from the gods, if such ...
— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams |
Words linked to "Contestant" : individual, nonconformist, co, dissident, qualifier, recusant, opposite, mortal, dissenter, withdrawer, victor, long shot, protester, contender, entrant, NIMBY, somebody, outsider, athlete, conscientious objector, someone, pothunter, competition, loser, starter, winner, political dissident, opposition, objector, also-ran, opponent, competitor, defaulter, agonist, challenger |
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