Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However the Big Green has only to exact a tie out of the Crimson today in order to leave themselves still in a 5 to 4 lead in the post-war series of the two colleges. On the whole string of games Harvard has won 18 as against its rival's seven, but until the resumption of football relations after the war the New Hampshire players had only vanquished the Cambridge men twice...
Owner of a fishery near Falmouth in Cornwall, Edward of Wales is a rival of Colchester. Loyally downing a dozen Colchester "natives," he spoke...
...offer from a brilliant young combination called International Mercantile Marine-Roosevelt. The other had come from irrepressible Banker Chapman who had found financial allies in the Pacific-the Robert ("Round the World") Dollars, the San Francisco Fleishhackers and Steamshipman Kenneth Dawson of Portland. Their bid topped the rival offer by $170,900 but dodged responsibility for operating the elephantine S. S. Leviathan by asking the Government to assume ownership and lease the ship for a minimum schedule of five sailings at U. S. Lines' expense...
...recalls the somewhat complicated action, it deals with one of those polished but weary captains of metropolitan industry who is on the eve of eloping with a reluctant secretary just after making miserable the corporate existence of a vague South American Republic through the calculated failure of a rival bank. Naturally any number of unsuspected people are out to destroy the polite and powerful arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least...
...Howard, Kan., Tom Thompson, 50 years editor of the Howard Courant, was given a golden jubilee party by Kansas editors. Inspirer of the celebration was Editor Fred Flory of the Howard Citizen. The Courant is the Citizen's rival, but they share one office. For mutual economy Editor Flory prints the Courant on the Citizen press. One window of the office bears the Citizen's name, the other the Courant...