Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweden's Gunder Hägg; a two-mile race, beating his own two-mile world record of 8:46:4 by three and six-tenths seconds; at Stockholm Stadium. His great rival Arne Andersson, one-mile record holder (TIME, July 31), did not compete...
...game last Friday, Company C had a record of six wins and one loss. Its nearest rival, Company E, showed five victories and two defeats, one of these defeats being a forfeit to Lowell House. E asked Lowell to re-play the game that they lost on a forfeit and the Bellboys agreed. The game was played yesterday afternoon...
Taking over the orchestra directed by his rival, the Opera Nacional's Jascha Horenstein, Sir Thomas found evidence of his predecessor's influence in rehearsal. "You know what we do with a musician like him in England?" snapped Sir Thomas. "We clap him in the Tower!" By the time Sir Thomas was through, Mexico City's ornate marble Palacio de Bellas Artes resounded with some of the most warmly polished Mozart that Mexicans had ever heard. The audience at the opening night's Don Giovanni also approved Baritone John Brownlee's legs (the most beautiful...
Company C yesterday clinched the intramural softball pennant as its nearest rival, Company D, went down in defeat, at the hands of Company E by the score of 3 to 0. Proudfoot., E. hurler, turned in the shutout, allowing only three well-scattered hits to insure his team third place in the standings...
Last week the rival Don Giovanni came off. Despite a few first-rate voices, it resembled a turgid Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent...