Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publisher of the monthly Farm Journal, biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,870,380), Graham Patterson had an office ideally located to keep an eye on his closest competitor. Right across Philadelphia's downtown Washington Square, he looked into the offices of the Curtis Publishing Co., owner of the Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, Jack and Jill and the monthly Country Gentleman, second biggest farm magazine in the U.S. (circ. 2,566,314). Publisher Patterson enjoyed the view but not the competition. Last week he found a way to keep one and eliminate the other...
...freshman events, Doug Runnels of Grays took the 100 (above) ahead of Stu Eddy and Nicky Beilenson, but Matthews South led in total score going into today's field events with Grays the only competitor...
...happens. On the next try, the one who rolled first now rolls second. If, improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders...
...guess I've liked to run since I was a boy," explained track coach Bill McCurdy. And he must have liked it because his record as a competitor equals his success as a coach...
...Yardling ski team finished fourth in a five team meet at Holderness School in Plymouth, N. H. Karim Aga Khan was the top freshman competitor with a sixth place...