Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswald's only rival for the title "Britain's Hitler," Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson (TIME, July 8), head of the Blue Shirts, did not cross the floor to the Conservative benches with Sir Oswald. He did not have...
...been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue helmets, swooped down on the Moulin Rouge and the Royal Concert.* There was no objection until word was passed that two rival establishments, the Apollo and Pompeii, were undisturbed. Managers, customers, girls and waiters went out to battle. Beer bottles crashed through the windows. Heavy saucers hummed through the air. An Andalusian blonde was felled by one on her ear. One of the attacking Amazons had her hip gashed by a seltzer bottle...
Loomed in Finland last week a rival to asparagus-loving Ambassador Walter Evans Edge who has the succulent stalks in which he delights shipped regularly to the U. S. Embassy in Paris from New Jersey asparagus beds (TIME...
...instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon champion, whose foremost rival was large and angular Jess Mortensen, onetime Southern California javelin-throwing champion; George Spitz, N. Y. U. freshman who high-jumped well over six feet when he was a school boy and now holds the world's unofficial indoor record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix...
...history of National Biscuit Co. has been filled with profits and acquisitions. Its most notable competitor is Loose-Wiles Biscuit whose Sunshine brands rival Uneeda, whose Sunshine Fig Bars are similar, for example, to Uneeda Fig Newtons. A third big company is United Biscuit Co. of America which as yet has no great national trademark although more & more it is using the phrase: Supreme Bakers...