Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State of Rio Grande do Norte rebellious Deputy Pereira had a rival last week. Impressed with the comparative success of Rebel Pereira, a Col. Joaquim Saldanha declared an insurrection against the government of Rio Grande do Norte, led out a force of 300 men to battle. In his first skirmish he defeated a body of Rio Grande do Norte state police, killed their commander, Capt Tavares...
...months the Cunard Line has been explaining that the big obstacle to constructing a monster British speed rival to Germany's Bremen and Europa was the matter of insurance. Insurance companies in the U. S. and Britain, boat-shy since the mysterious $3,000,000 fire on the Europa (TIME, April 8, 1929), were either too poor or too nervous to write a $30,000,000 policy. Last week the British treasury and the Board of Trade came to the rescue. They agreed to underwrite that margin of insurance on the great Cunarder's construction which cannot...
...other down like rows of toy soldiers. Though Bari on the Adriatic was shaken by severe tremors and many houses damaged, none was killed, none injured. Fascist engineers were proud, for modern Bari is their handiwork. They have converted a small sleepy fishing village into a great modern port (rival of Brindisi), laid out broad avenues and block after block of modern sanitary dwellings which with cracked plaster and sprung roofs were still safely standing last week...
...Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...