Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Andover, the winner last year, leads in the number of entries in the Class A competition with 34 Trackmen signed up for duty. Close on the heels of the Blue comes its age-old rival, Exeter with 31 entries. Andover easily took the meet last year with a total score of 56 1-2 points to Exeter...
...become U. S. Steel's first president, Mr. Corey followed him as head of Carnegie. Two years later he again succeeded Mr. Schwab-this time as Steel's president, a position he held until 1911. In 1915 he formed and headed Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co. as a rival to Mr. Schwab's Bethlehem Steel Corp. He retired in 1923 when Bethlehem bought Midvale. Same year he was divorced from his second wife, Mabelle Oilman Corey, onetime actress, whom he married amid much publicity in 1907. Died. Albert E. Sleeper, 71, banker, onetime (1917-20) Governor of Michigan...
...race in the 400 between the two rival captains, Johnny Morse and Karl Warner, which promises to be the outstanding event of the meet on Saturday filled them with almost as much enthusiasm as members of the team. When they heard that the outcome of the meet was a tossup they pledged their allegiance to the Crimson...
...brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter in a rival stadium in the distant and inconvenient Bronx...
...indictment of hill-billy superstition, soon becomes the Hepburn, the whole Hepburn, and nothing but the Hepburn. Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers who invade the backwoods to build a dam, offer complications...