Word: stiffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season with Amherst next Saturday. With that end in view, he plans two hard scrimmages this week, one this afternoon and one Saturday. Six of the Amherst eleven are letter men, and the University also has six veterans from last year's team. The Crimson team expects stiffer opposition than is generally encountered in an opening game...
...prices are a huge incentive in the attempt to overcome these difficulties of producing cotton abroad. Unless the American planter can overcome the ravages of the boll weevil, increase production and thus lower prices to something nearer a normal level, he will in a few years begin to encounter stiffer foreign competition than ever before in cotton production...
...automobile industry finds itself in a peculiar dilemma this Spring. Under the extraordinary past purchasing of cars in the U.S., production facilities of the leading car manufacturers have been greatly increased. This has in turn led to stiffer and stiffer competition and a tendency to cut prices on the basis of quantity production. As long as more and more cars could be sold, this policy of expanding plants and reducing unit profits is, of course, perfectly sound...
...will be a trial meet for both teams, a test for stiffer meets to come: hence the large entry lists. And to ensure plenty of competition for their large squads, Coaches Farrell and Connor have agreed to count the first five places in each event rating fifth places one point and fourth places, two, instead of scoring only the first three places as usual in intercollegiate meets...
...stock market, ostensibly in anticipation of the declaration of a larger dividend rate. In some quarters, however, it is expected the motors will not advance the present dividend much, and perhaps not at all during the coming year. The automobile industry in 1924 will be characterized by stiffer competition than ever before. Many automobile dealers who are anything but pessimistic nevertheless declare that the companies with the best reserves will come out best...