Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally the Report finds that the closely interlocked Communist-bandit armies now dominating central China constitute a regime which has become an "actual rival of the National Government. Thus with rare courage the Commission bared the fact that what is recognized by the Great Powers as the Government of China is a regime no more than "competitive" with China's Communists...
...Lake Scott became a national figure; the Scottish duty on post-horses was raised when tourists began flocking to see its authentic background. Scott had a shrewd publisher in famed Constable, but they quarreled and Scott set up his old schoolmate James Ballantyne and his brother in a rival house. Soon Scott began publishing anonymously the successful "Waverley Novels." Even the Prince Regent could not induce "The Wizard of the North" to drop his anonymity-until Ballantyne & Co. failed. Scott went back to Constable. In 1825 Constable too crashed, leaving Scott more than $600,000 in the red. Friends, admirers...
...Fortnight ago at the Arkansas Democratic State Convention, Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
...late Lord Northcliffe in 1903) has there been such hue & cry as there was last year about Garfield Arthur ("Gar") Wood's "Yankee trick." Wood in his Miss America IX crossed the starting line ahead of the gun for the second heat, thus prompting his rival, Kaye Don, who had won the first heat with Miss England II, to do likewise. Miss America IX and Miss England II were disqualified. A slower boat than either, driven by Gar Wood's brother George, circled the course and won the heat. Kaye Don's boat capsized shortly after...
...Millikan was just leaving Pasadena for Winnipeg when he heard about his friendly rival's telegram. From Winnipeg, where he may encounter Dr. Compton, he will fly with an electroscope to as close to the North Magnetic Pole as Royal Canadian Air Corps planes can carry him. There he will make his own cosmic ray readings, then soar eagle-wise southwards to Texas, getting U. S. Army planes after he crosses the border, making electroscopic observations all along...