Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...giants while interfered with in the first two miles of the race on the same course were only a few seconds behind this record, 18-57-1/5. They rowed the last two miles eleven seconds faster than the first two miles. Quite unusual I think! Their nearest competitor was ⅛ of a mile behind and their stroke was held to 28 to the minute throughout the four miles. It is hard for me to conceive of a racing shell moving faster than theirs, yet Ed Foote's 1905 crew rowed one time trial at Poughkeepsie in 18 minutes...
...third University Crew that will race in the American Henley at Philadelphia on Saturday rowed in its final seating for the first time. It entered the contest of the Senior Eights in the Harvard Invitation Regatta but did not race due to the fact that there was no other competitor. In the Junior Eights race the Freshman crew C won by two lengths from the Gore Hall crew over the mile course in the Charles River Basin...
...significant that the airplane, instrument of swiftest progress, was purchased by a "24-hour newspaper" (morning and evening combination) and the only newspaper in its city. It is to be used as part of the regular equipment, not as a stunting device to outdo, for the moment, a competitor...
...schoolboys, capturing two firsts with very little opposition. In the high jump, Kuehn cleared five feet eight inches with plenty to spare, and then came back to throw the shot 46 feet 11 1-2 inches to win the event with a two-foot leeway over his nearest competitor...