Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the gabble of 21 electioneering parties had died down, 427,000 voters (including 30,000 Arabs) went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists...
According to Roy F. Gootenberg '49, chairman of the H.L.U. Film Series, the theater management has protested to RKO Pictures Inc., and Universal Film Exchange, suppliers for the film series, that the H.L.U. is a competitor...
Gloomiest of all was publishers' counsel J. Raymond Tiffany, who groaned that television had become a "devastating competitor" to books in particular and to all culture in general...
...another nickname-"Little Ice Water"-fits even better. He stands 5 ft. 8½ in. and weighs only 140 lbs., but he manages consistently to hit one of the longest and straightest balls in golf. Apart from such purely technical skills, little Ben Hogan is the fiercest competitor in the game. With his relentless training schedule and assembly-line precision, Ben is all business, considers a social round of golf the most boring thing in the world. Any man who outscores the champ more than once this year will have to have most of the same qualities, because machine-like...
Harvard, Yale and Middlebury were the only Eastern colleges in last week's competition. Western State finished second in the tourney and also contributed the top individual competitor, Crosby Perry-Smith. Perry-Smith took first place in both the cross-country and the jump and amassed 388.00 points. Other teams to finish ahead of Harvard were Utah, which placed third; Denver, fourth; Colorado, fifth; California, sixth; Wisconsin, seventh; Nevada, eighth; and Wyoming, ninth...