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Word: rival (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Sewanee and Vanderbilt University, pioneers in Southern college sports, have played football it has been a tradition that each week preceding the Thanksgiving football game of the years that Sewanee defeats her old rival, a "baby" has been heard to cry somewhere on the campus each night exactly at midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Only a Voice | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...Colton, the elderly owner, is carrying on with Mayme Taylor,* the high-wire artiste (redheaded Lee Patrick, villainess of June Moon). His niece (Ruth Easton) has fallen for a cornet player (Alan Bunce) who is suspected of being a stool pigeon for a rival circus. The rascally son of the privilege car's rascally proprietor unexpectedly returns from jail to take up counterfeiting. There are also various subplots which flow back and forth across a stage crowded with amusing, if too finely drawn, circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Invading New Haven for its annual clash with the Yale Freshmen, the Harvard first year polo team will meet its rival at 4 o'clock this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN MEET YALE | 3/14/1931 | See Source »

...supremacy in the 125, 145, and 155-pound divisions were fought. Harold Frankel '34 defeated David Weld '34 in the first bout on a time advantage of 6 min., 7 sec. In the 145-pound struggle, Northrup Beach '34 earned a place on the team by throwing his rival, M. F. Topalian '34, in 7 minutes, 40 seconds. J. A. Potter '34 and Stanton Whitney, Jr. '34 fought nearly eight minutes before Potter succeeded in throwing his opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS MEET IN FINAL ELIMINATIONS FOR TOMORROW | 3/6/1931 | See Source »

...annual private school track meet on the Harvard outdoor board track on Saturday the Noble and Greenough team came through with a lead of nine points over its nearest rival, Roxbury Latin. The winning outfit garnered 30 3-4 points, with Roxbury Latin scoring 21 3-4 for second place, while Milton Academy was a bare 1-4 point behind for third place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOBLE AND GREENOUGH WIN SCHOOL TRACK MEET | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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