Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashore just below the Watertown Arsenal. But the distressed vessel did not appeal for help to the racy "Patricia" or to the "Brown Pup" or to the "White Pup". She was content to wait for the "John Harvard", which steamed majestically homeward against the wind, towing its now abject competitor behind...
...empowered to alter the tariff rates on any commodity either up or down, not to exceed 50% of the statute tariff. The action may be made by proclamation after an investigation of the costs of production in the U. S. and in the country which is our principal competitor in a given commodity. Within the limits set, the President is authorized to set new tariff rates sufficient to offset the difference in cost of production between the two countries. This is the so-called flexible provision of the tariff. Until the President took his present action it had never been...
...mile run, it is expected that Cutcheon, who has been doing outstanding work for the University during the winter season, will be able to distance the field which will oppose him. Eastman, the New England shot put champion in 1923, will have Hills of Princeton as his strongest competitor for first place with the 16-pound shot. Berglund, the 200-pound Sophomore weight thrower, has a good chance to score with the 35-pound weight, if he can equal his longest throws in the Winter Carnival at Soldiers...
...second prize of $25 have been offered by Mr. Richard Sears, Harvard '91, for the best oral argument on the question, "Are the safeguards surrounding the amendment of the Constitution of the United States sufficient?" The contest is open to all undergraduates in Harvard College. Each competitor must submit to the Chairman of the Department of Government on or before March 15 a written brief in which he states his definition of the question and indicates the nature of the argument which he will make, together with a summary of the evidence which he will offer in support...
...elected Second Marshal, because the latter had a few more total votes. Had the fourth candidate in this same election received four more total votes he would have received no marshalship although he got the second greatest number of votes for First Marshal and led his nearest competitor by 27 First Marshal votes. In the 1917 election a candidate lost the third marshalship by six total votes though he had 16 more First Marshal votes than the man who defeated him. Likewise in 1919 a man was moved down from Second Marshal to Third by six total votes although...