Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long been axiomatic that for fatuous stupidity the Advocate is a rare lit'ry nonesuch, but for sour and futile impertinence the current issue hasn't even a competitor. There seems to be such an effluvium of decomposition about its pages as to recommend it to the amateurs of the macabre as well as to connoisseurs of the preposterous, and, critically speaking, from cover to cover of the present issue there is scarcely a contribution which it would be possible to libel. The best prose reading we found was the Wetzel advertisement...
...entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry Worth Thornton (TIME, Jan. 28) has lifted Canadian National out of the annual deficit...
...most timorous mergophobe need not fear that the deal will create a world communications monopoly. Still the active, eager competitor of I.T.&T.'s wire systems is the mighty Western Union. Looming is a battle with Britain's merged cable-wireless companies. And for good measure, last week, Sweden's Kreuger & Toll (holding and financing company for the Swedish match trust) threatened to invade the foreign telephone field, in direct competition with...
Finally last week the delegates achieved sufficient unity to issue a joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would...
...reluctantly admits, her day is done. Tesman, an ultimate conception of the paperbound pedagog, is counting upon a professorship to offset Hedda's extravagances, when he learns that Eilert Lovborg, his onetime friend, has renounced debauchery, published a history of civilization, and may be regarded as a competitor for the professorship. Lovborg, however, reassures George that he is satisfied with his moral victory over vicious diversion...