Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soccer player, for instance, takes his training as seriously, is just as worked up over the thought of getting into the Yale game, and will as willingly give his last effort for the cause as any football or hockey enthusiast. In tennis, another of the lesser sports, the team competitor has even more responsibility to keep on the top of his form, since he is individually responsible for the success or failure of his own particular match. Likewise in lacrosse and many others it seems inconceivable that the players can give any more to the game than they actually...
Particularly interesting among the speeches will be a selection from the "Iliad", given by Laird McK. Ogle '37. This is the first time since 1886 that a competitor has offered a selection in Greek. In that year George Santayana '86 won second prize with a selection from the same work...
Into the news next blazed Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, hitherto a quiet competitor. Her trouble last week was with one of the men who have given her valuable assistance in the race-Mr. Harold H. Madill whom the Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...
Daughaday was elected with a seven vote lead over his nearest competitor, Edward T. Ladd '38. He was Chairman this year of the Committee On Transition, assistant chairman of the Social Service Committee, and a member of the Personnel Committee this fall...
...atmosphere, but once under way most of them will be carried along by the momentum of the year's most naturalistic novel. After a hasty checkup, statisticians last week agreed that Author Levin had succeeded in printing twice as many four-letter unprintables as his nearest competitor to date...