Word: competitors
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More solidly entrenened in first place than ever, Cornell today is the only undefeated team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League tournament. While its closest competitor, Yale, was meeting its first setback at Columbia, the Big Red last week again gave strong evidence that it will be a tough team to overhaul by walloping first Columbia and then Harvard, thus making its record five up and seven to go. Last Saturday's game with Dartmouth, scheduled for Hanover, was postponed by wet grounds and no date has been set for a replay...
...flying business peeled its eye for developments. For tough, pioneering Pan American Airways, operating around South America and across the Pacific, was getting ready to start service to Lisbon on an Atlantic run. And in all its adventurous pathfinding, Pan Am had had no U. S. competitor to worry about...
Bingham went on to describe the general trend in Harvard athletics, and landed the Harvard system which he said gave equal opportunities to the Varsity athlete and the intramural competitor. Cunningham branded Bingham's attitude as much too idealistic...
Twenty years ago English had more than a quarter of the concentrators in the whole college. Economics, its nearest competitor, had 19.1%, while Government had only 4.3%. Since that time the leadership has fluctuated between English and Economics, but English apparently lost its leadership permanently to Economics...
Louisville, Ky. is a one-paper town. Barry Bingham's proud old Courier-Jour nal (with its evening edition, the Times) constitutes a virtual news monopoly in the middle Ohio Valley: it has no serious competitor nearer than Cincinnati. Both papers are healthy, with circulations (Courier-Journal, 109,361; Times, 121,854) that are still growing...