Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does Dr. Talmey set up Gloro as a rival to such synthetic or simplified languages as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental, Interlingua, Idiom Neural, Perfecto, Anglic (phonetic English), Basic (English with a restricted vocabulary...
...more important accomplishment, one which old John Ringling, last of the seven brothers, vowed he would never see but which he did not see only because he died last December. John Ringling was accustomed to open his season every year in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden with no rival in sight. His show had done so ever since 1909, three years after the Ringling and Barnum & Bailey outfits joined forces. With Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey still in Florida winter quarters last week, this tradition was shattered when Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty moved into the Hippodrome, became the first...
...Ketchum, Idaho, the Union Pacific Railroad's wintersports rival to St. Moritz, the U. S. Amateur Skiing Championships, originally scheduled for Mt. Washington, N. H., were combined with the U. S. Open. Dartmouth's astonishing Florida-born Richard Durrance, who first saw snow when he was 12 years old, liked it so much that he made himself the No. 1 skier of the country, won both the Amateur and Open downhill and slalom championships against a crack field that included Hans Hauser, three times champion of Austria, and Dartmouth's ski coach Walter Prager, who finished second...
...unknown hoodlums who winged District Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles last fortnight (TIME, March 15), unwittingly gave the Los Angeles Times a long-awaited chance to detect a rival in a shabby deception...
Assembling all these pictures, and its own original unretouched photograph, the Times next day fell upon its rival. Heading the half-page layout: "HERE IS A STUDY IN PICTORIAL JOURNALISM PRACTICE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK,'"* the Times crowed: "All of this shows how a Times photograph was copied by the Examiner - an astonishing procedure, but not an unusual one. . . . The Times retouchers set a trap and caught - we might say, a copy...