Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norris, a member of the Varsity swimming team for the past two years, defeated three-time winner Steve Wosniak, former Michigan all-American John McCarthy, and entries from Yale and Princeton. Trueblee Habeler, the Tiger competitor, won the 440 yard free style in the Harvard-Princeton meet last winter...
...Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss the Government took on the war surplus sale of its $200 million Geneva (Utah) plant. Said RFC: the situations were not at all similar. U.S. Steel bought Geneva - Fontana's competitor-through open bidding long after the plant was built. But Kaiser himself built, operated and reaped the wartime profits from Fontana. Therefore, said the RFC, he had "no proper basis" for his plea...
...most spectacular fielders in the game. Last week he was doing more than that for Ben Chapman's last-place Phillies: with a .344 average, he was leading both leagues in hitting and had a 16-point margin over his nearest National League competitor...
Today the Charles River cannot be advertised as a competitor for Poland Springs. Newton's municipal sewage has all been diverted, malarial mosquitoes of the genus anapholes have all been removed, and the Brighton abbatoir makes mucilage out of the hoofs. The only attraction left to the natator and nature student are colonies of algae and orange peels...
...superb showing in the Eastern Association's 2000-meter sprint regatta at Princeton last month. The Varsity won going away from Navy and Cornell, the number one and two boats in the Poughkeepsie event, in the time of 6:05, just off the distance record. In addition, their nearest competitor was more than seven seconds behind...