Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves, to the 18305 when a St. Louis judge, aptly named Lawless, advised a jury that...
...preliminary competition, scheduled for about March 15, the field will be narrowed down to ten. Each competitor will be required to deliver his selection from memory at that time. The final competition will be held in Paine Hall on the evening of March 30, and will be open to the public...
Having avenged its only defeat, the University team has now a substantial lead over the Harvard Club, its nearest competitor...
...This does not mean that the securities of any manufacturer of military planes is a good buy, for military plane construction necessitates huge development expenses which may go for nothing if a competitor gets the contract...
When Media Records, which measures newspaper advertising, last week released its November figures for New York City, the Herald Tribune had piled up a nice Sunday gain on its competitor, the Times. Compared with November 1936, the Times lost an average of five pages of advertising each Sunday while the Herald Tribune made a fractional gain. Ordinarily such a record calls for prolonged professional crowing, but the Herald Tribune has been in no mood to crow since Sunday, November 21, when the paper carried as "Section XII" a 40-page glorification of Cuban Boss Fulgencio Batista's illiberal regime...