Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provides excellent entertainment. It is a story of the North Woods with the major part of the picture taking place in a lumber camp. George Brent plays the part of a worthless brother of a hardworking lumber executive who is stranded in the camp of the brother's chief competitor with no way out but to work. The rival company is controlled by Beverly Roberts, as rugged as the men she employs. Brent, whose entire life has been spent chasing women about Europe and this country, finds in her a stumbling block for his advances, and even when she realizes...
...will be chosen from a competition, which will take place about March 15. At that time each competitor will deliver his selection from memory. The final competition is to be held in Paine Hall on the evening of March 31. This event will be open to the public...
...only necessary to cite the case of a man still in college who, after successfully completing eight weeks of competition, was awarded the Whitaker scholarship, given annually to the Freshman "who shows the most outstanding scholastic ability and intellectual promise as indicated by distinction in studies". Another competitor was able to make the board and also become a marshal of Phi Beta Kapa...
...supremacy under the vigorous baton of young John Barbirolli and assorted guest conductors like Georges Enesco and Igor Stravinsky. With Toscanini back, in command of the first-desk orchestral talent which rich NBC already has and can add to, there will be in the land another competitor for symphonic supremacy, with the continent instead of Carnegie Hall for its auditorium...
...What," asked Senator La Follette, "would be your judgment on a Chrysler executive who sat in at meetings and then revealed secrets to a competitor...