Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
Seize the moment, apparently reasons the first competitor. His ship rises rockily, climbs in a gust of wind, scars off toward the Business School. After three and a half minutes, the judges announces that as it has disappeared from sight, its flight is officially at an end. Later in the afternoon the report flashes about that the missing ship is found in the tower of Dunster House...
With both helmsmen backed by long experience in the tricky shoals and strong winds of the Wianno district, observers rate the Crimson, runners-up last year to Yale, a strong competitor in the ten-college regatta. Starts will be made on the three days beginning Wednesday, June...
...issue of TIME you published an article entitled "The Drive." In connection with this article you published a footnote which reads as follows: "One competitor which did not last was the Oshkosh Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., founded by Otto Zachow and William Besserdich...
Ripley O. Jones '39 won the first event of the meet on Saturday, the paper-straffing, in which in 16 seconds he twice cut a streamer of paper which had been dropped from an altitude of 2500 feet. His nearest competitor's time was 23 seconds...