Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paso (pop. 103.000), biggest border town, is crowded with Mexicans, tourists, consumptives. Small Laredo has begun to rival it for Mexican trade, is counting on a boom as U. S. starting point of the new Pan-American Highway. Brownsville, once headquarters for Confederate blockade runners, is now a market town for the Lower Rio Grande's fruits & vegetables. Once a smuggling port known as "Colonel Kinney's Ranch and Trading Post," Corpus Christi ships cotton, with shrimp and oysters as sidelines. Port Aransas is the world's greatest crude oil shipping port and a famed fishing resort...
...decided not to run the low hurdles, secured a first in the broad jump and second in the high hurdles. In the jump he was nine inches ahead of his nearest competitor, Stan Johnson of M.I.T., while in the highs he was nosed out by his schoolboy and college rival, Johnny Donovan of Dartmouth. This was the first time this season in three starts that the Green runner has beaten Green...
Promising to repeat its victory of last year, Lowell House now leads it nearest rival for the House All-Round Championship Trophy by 55 points. Although Winthrop as runner-up can lessen the gap with victories in their three remaining contests by about 21 points, there is no hope of dislodging the Bellboys from their top position...
Pissarro may be the greatest man from the Virgin Islands [TIME, March 16], but he has a close rival in Judah Benjamin (1811-84). My own candidate would be Sosthenes Behn...
...clock in the afternoon in order to get to the field in time for the conflict and not disappoint the large crowd of spectators who had already gathered for the annual event. Proceeding through the Square to the accompaniment of automobile horns and cheers of the student body the rival athletes hung all over the horse-drawn vehicle and were forced to dismount to help the laboring animals over the Dary Anderson Bridge before they could get to the field and play the game...