Word: competitors
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...Special Artist had a competitor of sorts in the Civil War photographer. But photography was then in its rude infancy, and its slow action -10 to 30 seconds' exposure time-could not match the Special's quick hand and eye. Men such as Mathew Brady, best known of the Civil War photographers, lumbered up in their wagons to take static pictures after the battle, or gathered portraits of the generals and the men before the battle had begun. The fight itself was the province of the artist, who usually sat on a hilltop, scanning the battle with...
Crusader coach Bart Sullivan elected to try for a victory in the race's first two legs, by sending his best runners, Bowers and Buchta, against Don Kirkland, the Crimson's question mark, and Gus Schumacher. But Kirkland, who has developed into a top-notch competitor, killed that idea by staying with Bowers for 880 yards and sending Schumacher off even with Buchta. Schumacher, running behind the diminutive Buchta, was forced to chop his stride, and tried near the end of his leg, falling 10 yards behind...
...Chicago Times and spending $10 million of his own money, the elder Field had succeeded only in evoking the colonel's amusement ("Marshall Field is an authority on horse racing, yacht racing and grouse shooting, but he knows little about newspapers"). Marshall Field III apparently agreed with his competitor; he declared the Sun-Times an "economic impossibility" and installed his son as editor and publisher...
...Western Province of the Christian Brothers, the world's largest teaching order (17,000 brothers). The brothers, who started making wine in 1868, run three wineries that produce more than a million cases of premium wines and brandy a year, more than twice the output of their nearest competitor...
Moonshining has siphoned off $7 billion in liquor taxes in the past decade, the Licensed Beverage Industries, the trade association of legitimate distillers, complained last week. Moonshiners themselves are lamenting their own losses to a new and formidable competitor, who does not have to worry about revenooers busting up his stills. The competitor: Georgia's Viking Distillery, which has brought out a 90-proof corn whisky, Georgia Moon, that is just as throat-burning, stomach-churning and aggressively youthful (none older than 30 days) as its backwoods counterpart. The difference is that it bears the federal excise stamp...