Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rule that "lotteries, prizes, wheels of fortune or other games of chance shall not be used in connection with the sales of gas and motor oils." And it is expressly stipulated that no oil company shall indulge in the practice of painting out the signs and colors of a competitor...
Football, together with touch football, led the list with a total of 317 men. Its nearest competitor was tennis, with 256 men. Tennis and crew each called out 90 men. Seventy-seven were playing squash and cross-country appeared at the foot of the list with 56 runners...
...different names, but the monopoly is complete- the result of several consolidations. Castigators have often said that a monopoly breeds stagnation-not to mention other moral evils-but in Des Moines, the Cowles are spending more money in putting out an alert, progressive paper than, others do in fighting competitors. Old and famed as a morning-evening-Sunday newspaper is the Kansas City Star (in the morning it is called the Times). The Times and the Star are as essential to Kansas City as coffee for breakfast and napkins for dinner. Kansas City, Mo., has some 385,000 inhabitants...
Maitre Annet-Baden, Paris lawyer, drove his car up steep Montmartre. How the old machine coughed and sputtered and how slowly it proceeded! Unabashed, Maitre Annet-Baden was well pleased at its performance; for he was a competitor in a race to see who could climb the hill most slowly and he had won by going at 1 mile per hour...
...does. He is vigilant over a great boys' club in Manhattan slums; his farm in Arden, N. Y., is run upon an efficient, not a sporting, plan and it produces each year one million quarts of milk. He plays polo gravely and accurately, without undue brilliance. His chief competitor for place on the U. S. four was Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 30, who also inherited a vast fortune (carpets) but who has consistently avoided office work...