Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this case Beverly Roberts departs from her customary Junior League Portrayals' and becomes the heroic young miss who runs a logging outfit somewhere up in "God's Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...
...Kostrellos '37 leads the 125-pounders with a record of but one defeat in Varsity competition. Undefeated as a Yardling mittman, Kostrellos boxed in the 115-pound rank two years ago. Bill Garrett is another 125 man but lacks the experience of his competitor...
Footballman Bobby Green will battle Al Corbett, who broke his hand last year, for the call in the 155-pound class. Captain Pete Olney, who lost only one bout last year, seems to have a competitor in the 165's in Eddie Davis, who is regaining his top form of two years...
During the past dozen years Swift & Co., largest U. S. meat packer, has bought up 20 small packing houses. Last week Swift bought out its 21st little competitor...
...football team is to be as blind to the facts as the demand that it be abolished is presumptuous. When undergraduates or alumni of Harvard are willing to consider a university as cheating on an agreement merely because it fails to reorganize its academic program so that a competitor, functioning under a different educational system entirely, may be at less a disadvantage, then truly the great god professionalism-in-athletics openly reigns supreme...