Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Byline-Bagger. The Telegraph got off to a fast start 95 years ago by charging twopence when rival dailies were selling for fivepence. Soon after, it halved its price, became London's first penny daily; in 1888 its circulation soared to an unheard...
...inning here Saturday to give the varsity baseball team a 5 to 4 victory, its first of the season, over Holy Cross. It was Harvard's first win over the Crusaders in six years and Stuffy McInnis' first success with a Crimson nine against his ex-teammate and coaching rival, Jack Barry...
Join-or Else. Gangland murders increased, rival racketeers died untidily, and Charlie prospered. Binaggio decided he was big enough to take on Tom Pendergast's nephew Jim, the titular Democratic boss of Kansas City. In the 1948 primary, Binaggio's candidates beat Pendergast's for every county office...
HOUSTON RADAR. The rival Post exploded the story: the Humble Oil Co. had made the radar pickup in 1947, thought it might have been caused by a meteor. Probably the wildest story appeared...
...Competition. Lakewood is the product of two rival Los Angeles building companies-Aetna Construction, Inc. and Biltmore Homes, Inc.-which joined hands three months ago. Previously, Aetna's swarthy, shy President Lou Boyar had built 20,000 houses on his own; Biltmore's President Mark Taper, a Londoner who went to California twelve years ago to retire but never did, had built...