Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handled more gently than any other, including high praise of Professor Munn, who "is full of enthusiasm and is not hampered too much by rules and regulations. Almost more than any other man on the faculty, he takes into account what the student thinks of the subject." A rival course, English 79, is labeled "caution," with the additional remark that "Professor Rollins discusses poetry during the first half-year. Since he does not seem to enjoy the course, his lectures suffer correspondingly...
...less loyal to His Majesty, the Laborite Daily Herald, while urging Parliament to start a similar inquiry in Britain, declared: "The use of such names [as the King's] in the intrigues of rival armament firms to sell weapons is further evidence of the complete lack of scruple which characterizes the methods of these 'merchants of death...
...announced that he intended using an underwater color photograph taken by U. S. Submarine Photographer John Ernest Williamson as decoration for a new airmail stamp. Should The Crown's presses break down when his new stamp was being printed, he might produce one or two stamps which would eventually rival the 1¢ British Guiana's value. But it seemed more likely that the new Bahamian stamps would retain only their nominal value despite the fact that the first batch of letters bearing the airmail stamps will be sent from the submerged Williamson "photosphere...
...almost new. In a slightly different combination are to be found the ingredients which in Little Miss Marker made dimpled, piping Shirley Temple a national sensation. When Shirley holds a monolog with an imaginary person whom she addresses as "Mr. Cosgrove," when she gives herself parlor airs as a rival of her "new mother" for her father's attention, when she cheats a contemporary out of a pair of roller skates, she further validates her growing place as the sprightliest cinema prodigy since Jackie Coogan. Good shot: Gary Cooper reading What Every Young Mother Should Know...
...Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, celebrating its 80th birthday, held a drawing for cash prizes, proposed to publicize the winners in a splash of goodwill advertising. Winner of the $1,000 capital prize: Mildred Rosebud Baturin. Ruefully the Patriot paid $1,000 to Mildred Rosebud Baturin, associate society editor of the rival Harrisburg Telegraph...