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Word: competitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles from the finish, he was running third. He could not have known, but the Ferrari team had the race won. His grizzled teammate, Piero Taruffi, 50, had already finished in first place. Far back, Britain's Stirling Moss, driving a Maserati, the Ferrari's only strong competitor, had lost his brakes and almost crashed in a roadside cemetery. The other Maserati competitors had also either folded or faded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thirst for Thrills | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...presence of the "other shop" keeps each place wary and leads them to keep security measures. Cook says he has not had time to sample the Capriccio's service, but either for purpose of reconnaissance or a busman's holiday, the Capriccio's owners have dropped in to their competitor's for coffee...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

Fresh from a 4 to 3 win over Holy Cross, the Crimson golf squad moves to the Brown links tomorrow. Tom Wheeling, the team's outstanding competitor, will again be the leadoff man. Wheeling received a Pennsylvania state handicap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheeling Leads Golf Varsity Against Brown at Providence | 5/2/1957 | See Source »

...This dropped drastically to $124,144 in 1954, when the strike closed the Kohler plant for two months, but bounded back in 1955 to $455,261. Last year, paralleling the start of the boycott and the slump in housing starts, the figure settled to $336,856. Kohler's competitors said last week that the company is holding fast to its traditional No. 2 spot in the plumbing-ware industry, just behind the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. Admitted one competitor: "Kohler is in on all the jobs. We do not see it losing from the boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Kohler Holds On | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

Only an Accident. For a long while, a 3.8-liter D-Jaguar clung close to the leading Maserati. Then its new-type disk brakes began to give trouble, and it began to drop back. Maserati's most consistent racing competitor, a 3.4-liter Ferrari, had also slowed down to nurse its brakes. The race was only nine hours old, but already only an accident could lose for Fangio. His excitable pit crew managed to get one of his teammates' cars disqualified by refueling it too often; later they doused his cockpit in gasoline. But he and Behra kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks for Fangio | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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