All other things being equal, the contestants in the country holding the event should naturally come to the front.

The arrangement was carried out, and Brigham was entered as one of the contestants for the purse.

Father Dolomierfrom his face he would have been an able contestant of bonnets d'âne with Pupasse, if subjected to Madame Joubert's disciplineevidently had the same method of judging as God, although the catechism class said they could dance a waltz on the end of his long nose without his perceiving it.

As soon as he saw the contestants within reach, Grippeminaud, the sly fellow, throwing out his paws on both sides at once, caused the two suitors to be of one mind by eating them both up.

This survival struggle continued for another three hundred years, down to the beginning of the present century, reaching its highest level of intensity between 1914 and 1945, with contestants from all of the continents taking an active part.

A compromise was arranged between the contestants by which the two companies divided the business of furnishing communication by wire in the United States.

America won the victory there in 1896; she triumphed again at Paris in 1900; our athletes defeated the contestants at St. Louis in 1904; the victory was ours at London in 1908, and it was a foregone conclusion that we would win at Stockholm.