Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Edward Bigelow made a final decision on the starting goal guard following yesterday's practice when he selected Joe Morrill to guard the cage for the start of tonight's game over his closest competitor for the position, Westy Adams. The competition for the regular position is still keen, however, and it is by no means certain that Morrill will continue to hold down the starting job in every game this season...
...treasurer, Field, former President of the CRIMSON, Chairman of the Budget Committee, Treasurer of the Student Council, and Vice-President of the Phillips Brooks House Committee, led his only competitor by a 150 vote margin...
After interrupting his comments with a demonstration of the new Edison phonograph which plays for 40 minutes at a time, Mr. Edison continued, "The radio, I believe, is more of a competitor with the newspapers, through its news and announcements, than is the phonograph. The new record is not intended primarily to meet radio competition, but to satisfy what has been called the natural laziness of the American people...
...furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer Haskell told his plans to Power-maker Duke. He presumed that the $1,000,000 Quebec Co. Ltd., which Mr. Duke organized, would carry out their joint venture, would be the great competitor of the Aluminum Co. of America. But Mr. Duke saw greater gains for himself from dealing with the Aluminum Co. He traded his hydro-electric developments and rights for Aluminum Co. interests. He became a director of the latter. Manufacturer Haskell was left alone with his plans-and his wrath...
...Illinois Commerce Commission, scorned the U. S. Senate Committee sitting in Chicago to investigate "slush funds of the recent Illinois primaries" (TIME, July 26) ; he gave them no information on fund disposal. Others did, last week, principally Samuel Insull, greatest of midwest utility potentates. Mr. Insull's competitor, in a comparatively smaller way is Senator W. B. McKinley, recently defeated in the Republican primaries by Col. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Mr. Insull acknowledged giving $125,000 to Col. Smith. Then, no piker, he had further promoted his antiWorld Court campaign by contributing smaller sums...