Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Ivy League lead hanging in the balance, the two top teams of the circuit, Harvard and Cornell, meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field with the rival coaches each starting their top hurlers...
LONDON--Rioting between Sir Oswald Mosley's British Fascists and Leftist demonstrators marked rival May Day celebrations in London today when anti-Fascists pelted Mesley with stones as he spoke to a Rightist crowd in Jamaica Street, Bermondsley. Several persons were arrested, mostly Leftists, after scuffling with the Fascists and with mounted police who charged into the milling crowd
...CRIMSON baseball club, fresh from its triumphant trample over the prostrate form of the Yale "News," swept through the ranks of its once-greatest rival like the whirlwind. 23 to 2, the traditional CRIMSON margin of victory for yea, these many years, was the counter when erstwhile Catcher Wentworth retired the last newsgetter in the gathering darkness...
...judge, who for the last 16 years has been a nervous-looking gentleman of Polish extraction named Edmund K. Jarecki. Despite his invaluable assistance in years past, Messrs. Kelly and Nash this year found that internal considerations made it advisable to drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...