Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only after Kassem staged his Communist-blessed revolution in Iraq in 1958. Kassem tried to curry favor among the Kurdish tribes to solidify his own power. He promised them Kurdish schools, Kurdish newspapers, a Kurdish political party. So that the Kurds would not get too strong, however, Kassem armed rival Kurdish clans, playing them off against each other in cutthroat wars...
Democrats, badly divided by rival and stained by spectacular scan- need a candidate not with either factions or scan-Peabody reasons. He fills both perfectly...
...previous years, Harvard's letters of admission were sent out a month after some of our "fairly close, friendly rival" colleges' reply date. Thus, when a candidate accepted one of these other colleges (which he had to do before Harvard letters even went out), he would withdraw his application to Harvard. He was then not included in the Admissions office's prediction of the size of the incoming class...
...theologians. During the '20s, faculty moderates wished to give a hearing to theologians who were not bound to a literal interpretation of the Bible; conservatives, led by Dr. J. Gresham Machen, argued that such deviationist views should not be allowed on campus. Separate services were held by the rival faculty factions, which fought for the allegiance of the student body. Eventually, the Presbyterian General Assembly had to step in to resolve the quarrel, and in 1929, many of the conservatives quit to form the new Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia...
...since then have stressed its unique ability to make sales without taxes. That same year, when Wilson was an assistant to the director for modern art, he promoted a charity sale of modern works from Henry Moore to Graham Sutherland. This sort of thing had never been done at rival Christie's, which only now is getting around to the moderns. Sotheby's low commission (10%) gives it an advantage over foreign competitors, but Wilson's pioneering in the auctioning of modern art captured the British field...