Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without a doubt the Most Blessed Father had excellent reason for awarding this major journalistic plum exclusively to Thomas B. Morgan, onetime Associated Press correspondent and now Chief of the Rome Bureau of the rival United Press. Although lean, astute, close-mouthed Tom Morgan has been getting down to the Vatican for over a decade, he professed himself "amazed," last week, when the Summus Pontifex received him not in the Papal Throne Room but privily in his library. Observant Tom Morgan noted that Pio Undecimo was wearing "his little zucchetto or skull cap," and that "he spoke in a calm...
...controlled lines. Like Morocco to France, for instance, is the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. (Big Four) to the New York Central. And as the Great Powers suspiciously eyed each other's excursions in remote Asia and Africa, so each Great Railroad arches its back when a rival seeks to acquire some little road which to the outsider might appear to carry merchandise of driblet volume between terminals of meagre importance...
Opposition. How do the rival Empires regard this proposed enlargement of the B. & O.? It is quite acceptable to the Chesapeake & Ohio, which has apparently concluded an alliance with the B. & O. and is even willing to concede the B. & O. one of the railroads (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) which the Van Sweringens own. The position of the New York Central is doubtful, since the New York Central also has a 25% interest in the Reading and may not be willing to turn over its holdings...
...athletic rival has shown Harvard a courtesy in filing such a request. To Leland Stanford, Dartmouth and to all New England the game will mean much. Harvard itself can only gets by returning the courtesy of the Dartmouth Council, a gesture which will properly belie the charges of aloofness aimed at the University...
Unfortunately, the ponies, which were to have been sent "from New Haven, through the generosity of a Harvard Alumnus, were taken sick and will not be here for the game. At the close of the second period, the rival teams will, most probably, exchange mounts in order to put the teams on as equal footing as possible...