Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Free Press donned long pants and became a commercial afternoon daily with a Sunday edition. Immediately Tennessee Electric Power Co.* took most of its advertising from the rival afternoon News, vigorous advocate of a TVA-fed municipal power system, and became the No. i advertising customer of Mr. McDonald's Free Press. It paid the paper's highest rate, $1.26 an inch, though the News had charged it only...
...program will be: Chorale, "Freu'dich sehr, O meine Seele," by Bach; Concerto Grosso in B minor, Handel; Canon, "Hallelujah, Amen," Norris; Madrigal, "On the Plains, fairy trains," Weelkes; "Das Voeglein," Dvorak; Velse Nobles, Schubert; Martinslied, Hindemith; Chorus from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn; Overture to "Le Rival Confidant," Gretry; Scherzo, Beethoven; and two choruses from Secular Cantatas, Bach...
...Penn Sophomore raced home some 200 yards ahead of his nearest rival to win the IC4A cross country meet in New York yesterday. Harvard, who placed eleventh in the team standings, had only one man finishing less than fiftieth as Captain Rosswell Brayton came in twenty-second...
This week both the simple and elaborate methods of rival motormakers in gauging public opinion take their annual road-test at the 1939 Automobile Show in Manhattan. The 200 glittering, four-wheeled debutantes now arrayed in Grand Central Palace and soon to appear in 30 other shows throughout the U. S. have many a new selling-point, gadget, mechanical feature (see p. 77). The numerous changes in this year's cars are striking evidence of the motor industry's urge to give the public exactly what it wants. In the creation of some of the new car features...
...alley. Fists flying, James Aldige jumped in, captured one bandit, forced the others to flee. Then he dragged his captive to a telephone while he called the police. They caught the other two. Few hours later, when James Aldige's city editor read about this adventure in a rival paper, asked why James Aldige had not reported it, he replied: "I didn't think it was a story...