Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
Another danger, soberly noted Britain's New Statesman and Nation, is that if the United Nations are permitted to split into their component blocks after the war, "then quite obviously ... an imperial America, conscious of its new strength, will seek to dominate; a proud Britain, fearing a greater rival, will jealously watch every American advance; a suspicious Russia, finally disillusioned about the hope of cooperating with the capitalist host, will concentrate on the organization of power within her frontiers, and a renascent China, potentially more powerful than any other block, will seek to develop her limitless resources without incurring...
...feature match of the day Docker Orr, the Crimson's number one man, defeated Dick Cooley of the Blue 3 to 2 in a closely-contested game. The Harvard ace, down two games to none, came from behind to defeat his rival...
Rupp's chief Southern rival is Ed Diddle, coach at Western Kentucky State Teachers College. Though playing in a much slower league, Diddle's Hilltoppers last year reached the final of the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden, defeating among others mighty Creighton and the College of the City of New York. In 20 seasons Diddle's teams have won 262 games, lost...
...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...