Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years I have had the privilege of serving my alma mater in the capacity of Director of Athletics and it has been an exciting and challenging experience. I am very grateful to have had this opportunity because as a competitor, coach, and administrator I have always believed in college athletic idealism. I am grateful for the cooperation which I have had from the officers of the University, and particularly rewarding has been the association which I have had with my athletic staff, whose loyalty and help I shall cherish as long as I live...
...such good shape. Doug Kinney is a steadily improving swimmer, and should win well over half of his races this year. But with Bob Tolf injured, Kinney has little support. He also swims the 220 behind Berke; he should be over a mile ahead of his nearest competitor in total yardage by the end of the year...
John Steinhart may well be the best backstroker in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. So far, no other competitor has finished the 200 yards in less than 2:17; Steinhart did it in 2:16.2 against Army...
...faith in the value of competition," wrote Justice Harold Burton for the majority. "Congress did not seek by the Robinson-Patman Act either to abolish competition or so radically to curtail it that a seller would have no substantial right of self-defense against a price raid by a competitor . . . The seller may well find it essential, as a matter of business survival, to meet the price rather than lose the customer." The Supreme Court gave orders for FTC to determine whether the price cut had been made in "good faith." Since it is almost impossible to prove that...
...more winners than any other U.S. jockey in 1939 and 1941, earned a reputation for smart, hard riding if not for sportsmanship or trustworthiness. By 1945, he had been handed two more lifetime suspensions: one at Jamaica, N.Y. for "reprehensible conduct" (ordering a stablemate jockey to foul another competitor) and one for publicly insulting a Mexico City racing steward...