Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rousing, tingling exhorter. It was known that he had been shot at twice last spring when he was lambasting St. Louis in a campaign to clean up gambling. Jones- boro was glad to have him back, especially when he went at once to shout defiance at his rival, Rev. Dow H. Heard, 35. Redhaired, rangy, lantern-jawed, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Evangelist Jeffers, Jonesboro believed, was trying to oust Mr. Heard from his pastorate. He had accused Mr. Heard of immorality in Big Spring, Tex. Some of Evangelist Jeffers' men started in an automobile to Big Spring...
...rising sun. Ten minutes later the Question Mark gave chase, overtook Lebrix & Doret beyond Brussels. Near Dusseldorf a fuel line became clogged and the Question Mark made a forced landing. Lebrix & Doret, whose plane had no radio, pushed on into dirty weather over Russia in the belief that their rival still led them...
...which Frederick H. Prince of Boston had purchased from the members of the Weetamoe Syndicate and which had won three races the week before the cruise. Riding near was Resolute, which defended the America's Cup in 1920, and Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie, Resolute's rival in the 1920 trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle...
...added to the Wednesday editions. A vigorous campaign against gangsters resulted in the closing of racketeer-owned dog tracks. Its enviable reputation for foreign correspondence was heightened with an expenditure of some $250,000 a year on that feature alone. In circulation (400,136) it is surpassed by its rival in the evening field, Hearst's blatant American; but the News goes after and gets a higher class of reader...
...became a toxophilite at the age of nine; now in her late 20's, she shoots with placid abandon from an orthodox position with her heels at right angles to a line drawn from the gold. Observers were somewhat surprised to find that Mrs. Cummings had a close rival last week- pretty 17-year-old Dorothy Duggan of Greenwich, Conn., who set a world's record for the Columbia Round, lost the championship to Mrs. Cummings by 22 points...