Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy's pathetic fear of the amatory competitor of his youth, and his belief that his wife still loves the other man, lead to the high point of the play, a scene in which, fortified by a liberal dose of scotch, he decides to defend his mate by force, "like a tiger and his cubs." His eventual victory over the forces of ignorance is a wonderful boost to an intellectual ego shot to pieces by a week of midyears...
...brought out an evening edition in 1914. He acquired Philadelphia's evening Telegraph, Press, North American, merged them all with the Public Ledger. In 1924 he bought the New York evening Post. In 1930 he reputedly paid $15.000,000 for the Philadelphia Inquirer, kept it going as a competitor of the morning Ledger...
...Montgomery, Ala., the 112-year-old morning Advertiser last week took over its 52-year-old afternoon competitor, the Alabama Journal, celebrated by bringing out a joint Sunday edition. No run-of-the-mill newspaper union was this. The venerable Advertiser, known to most Montgomeryites as Grandma, is the most potent editorial voice between Atlanta and New Orleans. It cost the Advertiser's Publisher Richard Furman Hudson over $350,000 to buy out the Journal last week, made the combined papers a $1,000,000 property...
...position of goalie there is at present a three cornered battle raging. Abbot Fenn, who received his baptism under fire last year in the Yale series when Vint Freedley was injured, seems to be the leading competitor, but Goody Harding, who captained the 1943 six, and Bob Kayser, who has seen considerable Jayvee experience, will probably see action in the Northeastern game...
...Chairman of the Cabin committee, Jock Crawford '42 has 15 votes and his nearest competitor, Bill Thurston, has three. Roger Wilson '43, Dave Goldthwait '43, and Paul Sheeline '43 are close for the position of secretary with six, five, and four votes respectively. For Treasurer, Paul Sheeline leads Roger Wilson and Dave Goldthwait with five votes to their four. The final results will be announced at the open meeting next Wednesday...