Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow, 373 miles from Antwerp. The Belgica was third, 279 miles, and another Belgian bag, the Prince Leopold (winner in 1925), fourth with 192 miles. Great concern was felt...
...following facts, calling attention to the War Department's plan to extend military training in every educational institution in the state: J. Massachusetts stands first in the number of public school boys taking military drill. Over 19,000 is the number in this state, while in California. Massachusetts nearest competitor in the matter of schoolboys taking military drill, only 8000 are so listed. 2. The War, Department has plans afoot to extend compulsory military training into every school and college of any importance within the state. 3. Compulsory military training, the survey reports, without exemption, is unlawful in Massachusetts according...
Sometimes, however, an editor is so irritated by the constant piracy of his news by some competitor, that he deliberately lays a trap for the rascal in the form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post...
...there should be no strain. And yet I consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must get rid of the missile in the shortest possible time...
...asset to be keyed up, but that does not apply to the shot put. Look back over the records and you will find that the best marks have been made when the mental strain was lacking. It does not necessarily follow that a man is a poor competitor when he fails to make his best mark in the Intercollegiate competition. The same strain which is an asset to a runner tightens up the shot putter in such a fashion that he is fighting himself. I do not know if this is clear but the tenseness works against the rhythmic movements...