Word: rivale
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Opening this season on April 25 with traditional rival Staten Island, the cricket team is smoothing out the pitch for a big schedule. Challenged by Harverford for the first time since its renaissance four years ago, the cricketers will also meet Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., General Electric, Penn State Wayfarers, British Embassy, Philadelphia, and West Indian clubs. Both Americans and foreign students will be welcomed at a meeting in the Eliot Junior Common Room tonight at 7:30, when the Club will weigh its chances for bettering last year's 3 and 1 record...
...frenzied exchange of verbal brickbats customary when rival unions compete for control of an unorganized factory rarely disturbs the philosophical members of the National Labor Relations Board. The Board's traditional attitude has been that "exaggerations, inaccuracies, partial truths, name-calling and falsehoods, while not condoned, may be excused as legitimate propaganda...
...Rivalry. Malenkov became bold enough to denounce the Old Bolsheviks as "people rightly called bookworms, who have quotations from Marx and Engels ready for every question . . ." That was a mistake: Malenkov was judged "erroneous" for questioning the Sacred Books. A jealous rival moved in, Andrei Zhdanov. He was of Malenkov's age, but he fought for the Older Bolsheviks by leading a "Back to Marx" movement...
Death of a Rival. Zhdanov's own son, Yuri, was chief of the scientific propaganda section. Malenkov, with Stalin's backing, forced Yuri to publish a cringing letter of apology for his "sharp and public criticism of Academician Lysenko." Three weeks later, Zhdanov Sr. died, presumably of a heart attack. In January the Kremlin shocked the world by asserting that Zhdanov had been murdered by a group of Soviet doctors, most of them Jews...
...latest in a series of headline events which started March 6. At that time, Penn football captain George Bosseler and manager John Dern released a letter demanding either the easing of Penn's 1953 schedule, or the return of spring practice. Penn next year plays one Ivy rival--Cornell--and seven other major teams which do have spring drills...