Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number six position on the team reveals the excellent strength and depth of the current squad. Sam Hoar, another junior, can hit as hard as anyone on the team. His game lacks polish, but he is gradually developing from a wild slugger into a steadier, more accurate competitor...
...small transmitter in the basement of Winthrop reached that House, Lowell; Eliot, and Adams. As enthusiasm among other students built up, Tyng succeeded in interesting the CRIMSON in the project. Seeking an additional source of news and not wanting an advertising competitor, the CRIMSON consented, and, with Dean's office permission, assumed responsibility for the station. Under the agreement a loan of $500 was contracted and the station was not permitted to solicit advertising...
Coach Henry Lamar said he was pleased with the team's choice. "Clasby is a hard competitor; he'll be a good captain," he said...
Balance for Baron. At the opening of the novel in 1906, the older Barons are tired of carrying on the business and the company is about to be sold to a competitor. Impetuous young Stuart Baron, who has been managing the mills, maneuvers the elder clansmen into agreeing to sell to the highest bidder, then makes the highest bid himself. The elders agree to the coup, provided he will take two cousins into the business as balance wheels. The three of them-headstrong Stuart, flamboyant Raoul, a promoter and organizer, and cautious David, a slick man with figures-proceed...
...Mary Margaret McBride feel about her new competitor? "I think she's the greatest woman in the world," gushed Mary Margaret. "I love her to death. I adore her." Did she fear she might lose listeners to Mrs. Roosevelt? Estella Karn, the McBride manager, replied firmly: "Mary Margaret's audience is Mary Margaret's audience...