Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...
Macfadden, profiting on a poor turn by Ford, edged out his rival in the 100 in the good, but not record-breaking, time of 52.1. Blue natators took every other event on the card, but Crimson swimmers, notably Barnes and George Christman, who placed in both the 220 and 440, gave good performances...
...Occidentals. But to the Indian people a great tragedy had been averted. And, to their minds, Gandhi's fast had 1) revived India as a United Nations problem affecting the entire military and political future of the East; 2) again enshrined Gandhi as a saint; 3) brought rival political and religious groups together...
Mediator Alexander last week found himself in need of mediation. His 45-minute program had been cut by Mutual to a half hour, which makes a better "package" for would-be sponsors. This was just half the time allotted to his chief rival, the Good Will Hour's John J. Anthony (TIME, Dec. 2, 1940), who omnisciently resolves all problems with no help from a jury. Struggling to figure how to pack enough material into his shortened broadcast, Alexander observed: "This change presents a big problem to me." "Well," advised a studioman, "why don't you call John...
...rival teams will meet at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, in the Indoor Athletic pool