Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain-soaked beach at Cap Gris Nez one night last week, 24 grease-plastered men & women waded into the English Channel and struck out for England. By next night, when the last competitor was pulled exhausted from the water, a world's record had been broken, seven men and two women had succeeded in swimming all the way to Dover beach...
...practice shells from an English shore battery which kept plopping into the water ahead of him. Panagiotis Kamberos of Greece was disqualified when his trainers yanked him into the boat out of the jaws of a shark. "Papa" Eduard Mussche, 63, the oldest competitor, got lost in the Channel, had a mackerel tickle his stomach, finally sighted a boat and climbed...
...memorial, to Huntington R. (Tack). Hardwick '15, has been placed in front of Dillon Field House. Hardwick, who died in 1945, was a football, baseball, and track star, captaining the 1915 team. The citation reads: "Inspiring leader, eager competitor, loyal sportsman...
...Fred Dumaine's methods have done little evident damage to the New Haven. In the first half of this year the railroad's passenger revenues were off 9% from 1949-not so much as those of its New England competitor, the Boston & Maine; freight revenues' were off 1.4%, only a slightly bigger drop than the B.&M.'s. But railroaders, both in & out of the company, think that the effects of Dumaine's policies will soon be felt. Said one fired official: "The sales force is ruined, and . . . you can bet that the friends...
Last week Jacome's announced that it would move into a new $1,000,000 store to be built right across the street from Steinfeld's. The builder of Jacome's new store: none other than arch-competitor Steinfeld's, which owns the property, and will lease the new building to Jacome...