Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp...
...afternoon regatta Rowe's boat finished a length ahead of its nearest competitor after taking an early lead over the mile course. Stroke Wagner's boat was in second place, closely followed by the swingers paced by Comstock. Jack Wilson's aggregation was clocked in fourth place...
Phillips Brooks House is his largest competitor in the collection of used clothes, and he estimates that the charitable organization takes fifty per cent of all cast-offs in the University...
...Hearst Herald & Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted" by the janitor...
...elementary school children and recently was chosen Miss Europe of 1938 by a jury in Copenhagen. Indignantly appealing to the Minister of Education to rebuke the college for its puritanism by reinstating Miss Salonen, Finland's press pointed out she was a high-ranking student, was the only competitor in the beauty contest who did not use cosmetics...