Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that we note how greatly the number of participants in sports of an individual nature exceeds the number in team sports. For example, 312 different men took part in organized intramural tennis this fall. This number does not include those who played occasionally. Touch football is the closest team rival. The men who played in the organized Business School, Inter-Fraternity, Inter-Dormitory and Independent touch football leagues number 201. Intramural football is third with 173 of which 98 played class and 75 Freshman inter-dormitory football. Then follow track with 76, Freshman inter-dormitory crew with 72 and cross...
Short but raucous has been the life of the tabloid Manhattan pornoGraphic. Unlucky lately has been its Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden. Last June, Colyumist Walter Winchell left him for the New York Mirror, a rival tabloid; last July, Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau did the same (TIME, June 17, July 29). Last week, Editor Louis Weitzenkorn deepened the rut by following their examples. But not to the Mirror did Editor Weitzenkorn wend his editorial steps. Said he: to Paris will I go with my wife and dog, devote my time to creative writing...
...Utica, N. Y., one Harry Hewlett, garage man, sued the N. Y. Telephone Co; and Mrs. Dorcas Stockhauser, telephone operator, for $10,000. His charge: since 1923 Operator Stockhauser. daughter of a rival garage man, wife of another, diverted all calls to the Howlett garage, sent them instead to her family's garages...
...would have taken him to Ann Arbor and fame and . . . temporary financial case. During the Prime Minister's recent visit to this country the Vagabond completed the coup of his lifetime. Negotiations were brought to a successful conclusion which would have enabled the Vagabond to outshine even his distinguished rival, Mr. Richard Halliburton...
...received the following election returns--Richard M. Russell '14 was elected mayor of Cambridge by 4,000 votes over the present mayor. Edward W. Quinn Jimmy Walker was re-elected mayor of New York by a lead of over 300,000 votes. Jim Curley was leading his nearest rival for the office of mayor of Boston by 18,000 votes...