Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quietest night that anyone in Mexico's red light district could remember. Charros in from the ranches, generals and politicians in holiday mood strolled leisurely to their favorite bordellos, found the doors locked, turned impatiently to rival establishments, then beat frantically on doors up & down the street...
...Francisco last week, reporters found famed Helen Wills Moody on a station platform with a trunk full of tennis rackets, bound for Wimbledon where the All-England championships start June 24. Retired since her default to her ablest rival, Helen Jacobs, in the National Championships at Forest Hills in 1933, she explained that she had been practicing this spring, gradually convinced herself that her game was as good as ever. Said she, about her trip to Wimbledon: "I just made up my mind to go this afternoon...
...belief of many a pedagog that a major change is imminent in the pattern of U. S. education. Still dominant in the U. S. is the 8-4-4 pattern (eight years of grammar school, four of high school, four of college). In the last generation has arisen a rival 6-3-3-4 pattern (six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high, four of college). The pressure of the "old grad" has kept the four-year college course sacrosanct. But educators see a natural break between sophomore and junior years. Up to that point...
...Next day Lincoln Ellsworth, No. 1 Byrd rival in South Polar exploration, sailed for Europe on his third transantarctic expedition, to determine "once and for all" if the so-called South Polar continent is really a single body of land or two or more gigantic islands. Said rich Explorer Ellsworth when asked about his financial backing: "I am an idealist-I don't care where the money comes from...
Unlike its old rival at No. 23 Wall, Kuhn, Loeb elected to stay in the securities trade, abandoning its deposits. Traditionally railroad bankers, Kuhn, Loeb has lately widened its industrial friendships, particularly in the steel industry. Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube have long been clients, and last year the firm assisted President Tom Mercer Girdler with his Republic Steel merger plans. Last week Kuhn, Loeb was preparing to market $50,000,000 of bonds for Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel-a big industrial issue even in Kuhn, Loeb's long records...