Word: competitione
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Twofold were Herbert Hoover's promises to U. S. farmers in the 1928 campaign. One was relief by means of a new Federal agency to assist in crop marketing. The other was relief by means of increased tariff rates on agricultural commodities, to protect the U. S. husbandman from foreign...
Discrepancies might have been accepted without loud complaint had the House tariff-makers ceased their activities with Schedule VII (Agricultural Products). But tariff-making is the oldest U. S. political game next to taxation. Every U. S. producer claims special consideration, paints a terrifying picture of his ruin by cheap...
Playing the game for the game's sake is a very worthy ideal, but competition is the spice of all sports and if something as ephemeral as a letter adds to the zest why seek to cast it out?
Telephone books, magazines, neck ties, whisk brooms, Victoria records are not unusual contributions to the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that inevitably finds its way to the P. B. H. van. Uncle Eph and the H. A. A. are forced from competition by the wide appeal and intensity of...
You attribute the difference between major and minor sports to the fact that "Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of...