Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with 21 3-5ths, Boston College with 21 1/2, Holy Cross with 17, and Northeastern with 7 3-5ths points. Individual honors went to B. C.'s Herb McKinley, who triumphed in the 440 with a time of 50.3 seconds, a full second ahead of his nearest rival. Ralph King of B. C. was the only double winner, capturing top honors in the 100 yard and 220 yard dashes...
...Massachusetts, where less than 6% of the voters turned out for the primaries, the only excitement was on the Democratic side. Joseph B. Ely, twice Governor of Massachusetts and the sole avowed Democratic Presidential rival of Franklin Roosevelt, campaigned with the slogan: "Don't Copy Hitler . . . Reject Roosevelt." He won six of his state's 68 delegates...
...Pegler complains that when he wrote ... in blame of Mr. Field, and in praise of Mr. Field's rival [Colonel McCormick], the Daily News omitted his column. This is true. I killed the columns myself. ... If he had written one-sidedly in praise of Field and in blame of McCormick, my decision would have been the same...
...Niece. Joan's voice is no more remarkable than her rival partner's, but like him she has learned to handle it with mellow finesse. Her family (their name was once Simon) has been in show business for half a century. Her father is a music publisher. She has a brother and an uncle who are songwriters. Another uncle is Showman Gus Edwards. The family kept Joan's nose to the piano until she was 16. At Hunter College she majored in music and minored in psychology, taught piano and sang on the radio...
...been hard on the elite of Bucharest. The full and ample bellies of the great have shrunk. Once Bucharest had no peer in the confection of flaky pastries stuffed with creams, no rival in the sticky sweet aroma of the boulevards and bright cafes, aswarm with men & women who perfumed themselves instead of taking baths...