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Word: competitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland walked off with the House Wrestling Championships in the I.A.B. last night as it outscored Dunster, its closest competitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland's Wrestlers Capture House Title | 3/22/1957 | See Source »

...over Army, it appeared a shoo-in to retain its Heptagonal crown in today's meet at Cornell. Since then, unfortunately, a spectre has arisen: Cornell, discounted after its loss to Army, has finally displayed the power which figures to make it the Crimson's keenest competitor for Heptagonal honors...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cornell Favored to Take Heptagonal Title Today | 3/16/1957 | See Source »

...regional trunk line serving a few Western cities. Today its routes cover nearly half the nation. Its net last year alone almost doubled to $710,426. When its first gleaming DC-7B sweeps down over Los Angeles, carrying coach-fare passengers in luxury style, Continental will become a major competitor in the nation's aviation network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Happy Hunting | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...cost of transporting the coal plus full repayment of the investment in 15 years, is expected to be about half the $3.32 a ton it now costs to ship coal to Cleveland by rail. Although the pipe is a possible competitor of the railroads, three of them-the Pennsylvania, New York Central and Nickel Plate-allowed the pipeline to cross their right of ways in return for an option to buy 45% of the pipeline-operating company's stock. If the pipeline proves trouble-free when full-scale operation starts April 7, the industry expects it to be widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Cost-Cutting in Coal | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads got broken by the hardwood chairs in Competitor Texas Guinan's ginmills, served 30 days in 1931 after Feds raided her 58th Street Country Club, went broke after Repeal and spent her last 20 years in a one-room Manhattan apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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