Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
There are 25 birds to a round. This means the competitor shoots one bird from each house (singly) at each of the eight stations; and one bird from each house (simultaneously) from stations one, two, six, and seven. That makes 24. If he breaks all 24 birds, he can shoot his last one from any station and from either house. Otherwise, he want shoot the last bird from the place where he first missed...
...sportsmen and the "proletarian districts" all elected their own queens, and crowned them at special fiestas. The press photographers got Cantinflas, Mexico's most popular comedian, to crown their queen (see cut). Moy ran as the army's candidate for queen of all the festivals. Her nearest competitor was sultry, dark-haired Yolanda Ortiz, candidate of the traffic cops (the police department had its own candidate). Almost everyone in Mexico City knew that they were running a close race, but that Moy was ahead...
Winner Take All. At Sydney, Australia, the two leaders in a swimming race quickly made for shore when they discovered that their closest competitor was a shark...
...move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...