Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpracticed players who were undismayed by a huge, fearful Crimson foe, and snatched victory from defeat with a daring last-second dash in a duel of flying wedges. Merriwell did not have to think about a war, or the fact that Harvard was playing its most honored and blasphemed rival for the last time for the duration. Back in those days, it was easy. You just played football, and Adolf Hitler was busy hanging paper. And 60,000 people packed Yale Bowl, hysterical in their partisanship...
...last encounter of the two colleges before Victory is not inconsiderable. To thousands of Crimson alumni in all quarters of the fighting world there would come a feeling of contentment. They could think back on their college days and smile at three consecutive victories over their ancient rival; they could have a whole artillery of quips to fling at Yale men in their battalions. Football, that felic of an unharnessed past, would be a pleasant memory. And even Frank Merriwell, for whom God, country, and Yale were synonymous, might have a few uneasy moments in his literary grave...
Last week the lean, 54-year-old Ulsterman sat down at dinner in his tent with the captive Thoma. On an oilcloth table cover he showed his rival how the battle had been won. "I told him," Montgomery reported afterward, "that I came to the desert in August. In September I met Rommel. In October I beat...
Since its advent last April the Stars & Stripes has given doughboys in Britain an eight-page weekly ration of U.S. wire service copy and pictures supplemented by sports, domestic news and radio photos. More conservative than its rival weekly, Yank, published in New York City for U.S. Armed Forces everywhere, S & S has nevertheless carried its share of comics, cartoons, together with first-rate coverage of U.S. troops in Britain by some 15 newsmen attached to combat units...
...down the route black men and white labored and fought against the wilderness, against the strength-sapping heat, against disease, sometimes against each other-rival tribesmen assigned to the same job drew knives. Americans howled in protest when a local government tried to tax their cigarets and food. Pan Am officials wrangled with Army control officers over how to run the line. But in spite of friction, accidents, mosquitoes and soggy, yeastless bread, the men fought hard to put the route through...