Word: rivaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston, the traditional seat of Harvard learning, has lost the title of the seat of most Harvard graduates to its western "rival," New York City...
...Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goring who simply moved in fortnight ago, brusquely announcing: "Any further Government role by Dr. Schacht-even as Acting Minister of Economics-is out of the question!" Last week at the Ministry for Propaganda and National Enlightenment, headed by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a bitter rival of General Goring, word was put about that "Hitler has turned down the draft text of a 'hold for release' press announcement of Dr. Schacht's resignation on the ground that nothing has been decided...
...general rah-rah of autumn, digging the meaning elbow of their buffoonery into the ribs of the football fans. Self-styled apotheoses of the wacky, the Brothers pull on helmets and shoulder pads, copy the old one-minute-to-go formula in triplicate, climax the film by beating rival Midwestern for dear old Lombard when Harry Ritz throws a high pass, catches it himself, and runs for the winning touchdown...
...mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers for themselves and friend, continued employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded, only adverse scores being when the Ritzes play. On the eve of the Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally, has him declared ineligible. Chief Indian-baiter Bob Hayner (Dick Baldwin) is suspected of informing on the star, but plays heads-up football, clears himself of suspicion after the Ritzes clinch the victory, and regains the favor of the coach's daughter...
...refuses to regard her San Francisco neighbor, Helen Jacobs (to whom she lost the National Championship in 1933 by default because of a wrenched back), as an arch rival: "She was one among other players...