Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune" is a very, very vulgar paper indeed, although we suspect that some of his local journals rival it in this respect...
...Gallienne, Leopold Stokowski, John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Norman Bel Geddes, Nelson Rockefeller. Organized not for profit but for "the study, research and development of film art." the Society initiated a trend which is the cinema equivalent of the Little Theatre movement. Already it has a lusty rival: the Film Forum, headed by Playwright Sidney Howard, which last fortnight gave as its first presentation the German picture M, directed by Fritz Lang. Vaguely pinkish in political tone, the Film Forum hopes to use a profit from its admission rate of $5 for six pictures, for producing "documentary" films...
Andover, like its cousin and rival Phillips Exeter Academy, has been famed for its mature atmosphere which, with its size (660 students), makes it resemble a small college. Of late its physical expansion has been remarkable. Out of the alumni spirit which Headmaster Stearns succeeded in evoking grew the benefactions of Andover's most notable latterday friend, Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran. Football player, classmate of Headmaster Stearns (1890), Benefactor Cochran was a leader in establishing a pool from which the school has received $11,000,000 in anonymous donations. He gave $1,000,000 for maintaining the trees...
...collection of modern French art-notably strong in Blue and Pink Period Picassos. And spread through the galleries of the old Museum was Director Taylor's prize catch: first showing of some 300 canvases assembled by the College Art Association from nearly 20 different countries, a potent rival of the Carnegie Institute's famed international shows...
...year contract on a home-and-home basis, and emphasis will be placed on the diplomatic manouevres since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...