Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...axiom used to be that there were only three important textile fibres-wool, cotton and silk. Since the War, the new artificial fibre "rayon" has forged ahead so rapidly that it has already passed silk in point of production, and now looms as a dangerous competitor to wool and cotton. In 1924, world output of cotton was 9,000 million pounds; of wool, 2,600 million pounds; of rayon, between 100 and 125 million pounds. Rayon production for 1925 is estimated at 150 to 200 million pounds, with steady growth ahead...
This has at length stirred up opposition. Some of the U. S. companies have demanded that Lloyd's, as a serious competitor, be forced to subscribe to the same conditions in the business by which they themselves have been bound. Also, the State Superintendent of Insurance, James A. Beha, last week declared that, in the case of disputed claims, U. S. citizens were not adequately protected and had no way of bringing pressure to bear in London in behalf of their interests...
What he meant by that was this: With an average 18-hole score of 74 1/12 for the 24 rounds of the last six U. S. open championships, Jones leads all other medal golfers of this country, amateur and professional, by a comfortable margin. Jones' nearest competitor is Walter Hagen, average...
Arthur Ingraham, who captains the Exeter tennis team this year and is also the brother of Captain Ingraham of the University team, is another very dangerous competitor. He is ranked at No. 11 in the annual ranking list of the Tennis Association, four places ahead of Hill in the Junior singles group. Ingraham is the Junior champion of Rhode Island, while his teammate, Richard B. Sewall, is Junior champion of Maine...
...races for scholastic fours held yesterday afternoon. Noble and Greenough's first four defeated its nearest competitor, Cambridge Latin by more than two lengths, finishing the mile in 6 minutes. Brown and Nichols' second boat nosed out Noble and Greenough's second four by a quarter of a length, winning in 6 minutes and 20 seconds over the mile course...