Word: rival
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weight to the annual criticisms against college football as the event reported in connection with the Notro Dame-Southern California game. In the amazing story of espionage and imprisonment meted out to a member of the Southern California squad for alleged betrayal of secret plays to members of the rival team, such an attitude utterly foreign to the spirit of amateur competition is revealed...
...costs has overridden things which properly precede it in importance, among them a decent respect for the rights of individuals. In the present case that determination has revealed itself in a ruthless professionalism which has not scrupled even to cast an implicit insult at its football rival. The implication that Notro Dame was not unwilling in bribe a member of the Southern California squad considerably dulls the luster of the Trojan victory...
...factory for a much better one, driving a truck for Bootlegger Visconti. His hours were long but he worked only one day a week. Good & bad luck hit Frankie about the same time. He met Rosie at a dance hall, and he got a warning from a rival 'legger that hereafter his weekly trip would not be safe...
Frankie was in two minds what to do about the warning. He was offered a better job with his boss's rival, but he was afraid of his boss. Finally he just let everything slide while he had a good time with Rosie. But on the next trip the truck was held up, his partner was shot. Frankie figured out that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie...
...only unbeaten and untied football aggregation in the East, Harvard will probably go into the battle with its traditional rival this Saturday as the favored team. The Eli stratagem of cutting out the usual game before its contest with the Crimson has certainly had no particular success, since Both will be restricted in his activities by a strained ligament and the stellar Blue center, Malin, is undoubtedly out of the game. On the other hand, Harvard, in spite of its last two hard contests, will be entering the epic clash with full strength, Dean being the only doubtful...