Word: competitor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rebounding from last week's defeat at the hands of Boston University, the lights came back, aided by a tailwind and a strong downstream current, to cross the finish line in a strong 5:22.0, a convincing 5.4 seconds before Williams, their closest competitor...
Luce and TIME found that radio was a friend rather than a competitor. The magazine had been founded in 1923 on the faith that busy people would welcome a weekly distillation of their daily news, a concisely written guide that would put headlines in context, and garnish them with TIME'S vivid prose and Luce's strong opinions. Halberstam traces the magazine's success and its development far beyond this early formula...
...more than a decade, Columbia University Sociologist Herbert J. Gans spent his spare hours watching journalists go about their jobs at CBS, NBC, TIME and Newsweek. The result, Deciding What's News, is too plodding to knock David Halberstam's gossipy competitor off the bestseller charts. But Gans does offer some shrewd observations about life on the other side of the headlines, and some provocative notions about how it should be changed...
...trackster's weakest link was the sprint events, which were dominated by Brown. A lack of depth here kept the Crimson qualifying a single competitor in the 100-and 200-meter dashes...
Fish, the only living member of Walter Camp's legendary All-Time, All-America football team, came to Faneuil Hall as the expression of Old Harvard. He was the World War I Republican, a 25-year Congressional veteran, a decorated infantryman and never-say-die competitor...