Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just to make things more interesting, the Arrangements Committee will sit men from one college or university next to the alumni of their bitterest rival. The committee went to exhaustive lengths in making the survey of colleges, and they found no less than 114 institutions represented...
...Mexican President to invite his greatest rival back to an office of great power is something as new as World War II's close and friendly cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. One view was that Cárdenas was recalled because of pressure from labor and other groups opposing such politicos as the President's brother Maximino, Minister of Communications and Public Works. Another was that only Cardenas could dispel the apathy toward the war effort among the peasants. A third and far sounder view was that, in sincerely seeking to unite all the political forces...
...McGill hammers hard on the big stories, but still has not hired a police reporter. The Constitution has not had a complete staff in the memory of Atlanta's oldest living newsmen. It loses good reporters who "cannot live on hope forever." Nobody seems to care that the rival Journal (bought by James W. Cox in 1939) beats it in circulation and news coverage. But the Constitution has upped circulation 40%, to its alltime high of 136,000 daily, 150,000 Sundays...
...standings of the Houses on the same system used in calculating the winner of the Strauss Trophy, which is given to the winner of the inter-House sports program during the regular year, Samborski found that Kirkland had a substantial margin of 37 1/2 points over its nearest rival, Leverett...
Once Frank Knox had his own paper-the Lake Superior Journal, which he got with $500 capital, a partner, and judicious borrowing-he went to town. He outslugged and outsmarted the rival newspaper, made enough money to move on to bigger things. He founded a new paper in Manchester, N.H.-then jumped into the big money by becoming general manager of all Hearstpapers at $150,000 a year. He finally wound up as publisher of the respectable and even distinguished Chicago Daily News...