Contests
[kən'tests]
Examples
- These contests served to bring out the failures, and the still-existing wants in this line of machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He was ready to go back to old times, and commemorate the contests of our fathers, and the monarch's abdication. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then came many public trials and contests between rival manufacturers and inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The litigation on the Edison lamp patents was one of the most determined and stubbornly fought contests in the history of modern jurisprudence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Into all contests requiring athletic skill and courage, the young man, from his boyhood upwards, had flung himself with all his might. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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