Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Racing toward the important diplomatic and commercial goal of the United States of Brazil this week were two highly placed rival representatives of opposing political and economic systems. Nearing Rio de Janeiro from the North on the U. S. light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...
Healey has been saved for this afternoon's contest because the battle for the League championship is very close, and a single defeat received by the Stahlmen would throw the race wide open. Healey's pitching rival will be a rapidly improving Quaker Sophomore, Tony Caputo...
...this year the Crimson have rolled up 50 points to their opponents' 11. At the present time only the Chicago rugby club stands out as a formidable national rival, and negotiations are under way to arrange a meeting of these two teams at the New York World's Fair...
Last year, as a two-year-old, Johnstown won only seven of twelve races. Because Johnstown ate too fast and often made himself ill, his trainer invented a sievelike device to feed him oats slowly. Johnstown swiftly improved. This spring, in three starts, no rival could get within six lengths of his heels at the finish line. Last week, Owner Woodward saw Johnstown join one of the Derby's smallest fields as one of the shortest favorites in the history of the race...
When plans for the New York World's Fair 1939 got under way, sharp little Billy Rose's nose smelt business. He was an old nose at Fairs: in 1936, when Dallas, Texas opened its resplendent Texas Centennial, Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole the limelight and the crowds. Smart again a year later, he mopped up in Cleveland. Smart once more, for New York's monster shindig Billy Rose took over the Fair's huge marine amphitheatre, announced an elaborate amphibian revue. Last week Rose unveiled his water lilies...