Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of monotonous victories. This spring with a strong, heavy crew Oxford set about the business of acquiring a victory for a change. Practices were guarded and secret. A system of buzzers and bells was rigged in the boat to signal the beat in code, so the rival cox could not count the stroke. There were special instruction sessions in the London Rowing Club tank. The crew was shifted this way and that. No expense was spared to get a pair of specially designed shells. Thinking the new shells too slim, coaches ordered another one, said they must have...
...John Pierpont Morgan, the Elder. Jacob Henry Schiff rose to the undisputed leadership of U. S. Jewry. Almost single-handed he built up the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. from a small concern founded in Lafayette, Ind. by two retired commission merchants, to a point where its only rival in power & prestige was the House of Morgan. Philosophical old Jacob Schiff had a favorite saying: "On the mountain top all paths unite!" Last week the-House of Schiff and the House of Baker entered into their first contractual alliance. Mr. & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. announced the engagement...
...anyone who poked fun at the pompous rodomontades of his Leader. Soon he and Berthold were at daggers drawn. As the Nazi flood crept higher, Martin Oppermann saw that the Jews would have to look for an ark. Almost too late he arranged a humiliating merger with his Christian rival. And then things really began to happen to the Oppermanns. Berthold, confronted with the choice of a public recantation or expulsion from his school, committed suicide. Gustav, who had signed a manifesto against the Nazis, was persuaded to flee the country just before a raiding party came...
...Dental School team with five defeats and not a single victory. The Law III team, without their captain, Bob Leach, succeeded in winning the championship handily and also defeating the Junior Varsity. They were never headed during the entire season, and won their game with the element rival, Law II, easily, with Glick leading the scoring as he did in many of the previous games...
...solution was "a desperate act." It is not fitting that she should adopt the simple formula of Dorothy Dix--"give your husband a little something to worry about." Miss Chatterton seizes a solution that would command the hearty approval of Oswald Spengler--she pulls the trigger on her rival...